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- Title
"The Only Real White Democracy" and the Language of Liberation: The Great War, France, and African American Culture in the 1920s.
- Authors
Whalan, Mark
- Abstract
This article focuses on the largest transatlantic movement of African American men since the days of the Great War (World War, 1914-1918) to France. African American soldiers returning from the war retained a powerful range of political connection in the imaginations of both African American and white Americans, long after the immediate social consequences of demobilization. The war afforded African American men opportunities many had not experienced before. However, according to the author, the Great War was not a uniformly positive experience for the African American servicemen who participated in it.
- Subjects
FRANCE; AFRICAN Americans; TRANSATLANTIC voyages; WORLD War I; MILITARY personnel; POLITICAL doctrines
- Publication
Modern Fiction Studies, 2005, Vol 51, Issue 4, p775
- ISSN
0026-7724
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/mfs.2006.0012