IN BATTLE FOR PEACE DURING 'SCOUNDREL TIME': W. E. B. Du Bois and United States Repression of Radical Black Peace Activism

被引:7
作者
Burden-Stelly, Charisse [1 ]
机构
[1] Africana Studies & Polit Sci, Northfield, MN USA
关键词
Anti-Blackness Anticommunism; Antiradicalism; Radical Black Peace Activism; W; E; B; Du Bois; COLD-WAR; AFRICA; NEGRO;
D O I
10.1017/S1742058X19000213
中图分类号
C95 [民族学、文化人类学];
学科分类号
0304 ; 030401 ;
摘要
Using the praxis and persecution of William Edward Burghardt Du Bois as a case study, this article analyzes the ways in which anticommunism became a tool of investigating, policing, discrediting, and ultimately curtailing what I call "Radical Black Peace Activism." During the Cold War, the U.S. state apparatus treated this form of activism as an anti-American, foreign-inspired threat to national security attributable to the Communist "peace offensive." Radical Black Peace Activists linked the end of global conflict, disarmament, and non-proliferation with antiracism, anticolonialism, anti-imperialism, and socialism. They argued that progress and justice could only be realized through international cooperation and peaceful coexistence. In other words, they demanded a new world order that would displace the United States, and its relentless militarism, as the world's police. The investigation, indictment, and defamation of W. E. B. Du Bois, which coincided with the intensification of the Korean War, is illustrative of how Radical Black Peace Activism was treated as a form of Soviet-backed subversion. Through anticommunism, the U.S. state apparatus deemed the use of anti-Black and antiradical repression imperative to its security, stability, and status as the global defender of freedom and democracy.
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