Drawing upon more than two decades of research in secondary and documentary publications as well as archival materials from the United States, the Soviet Union,

Maxwell uncovers both black literature's debt to Communism and Communism's debt to black literature, reciprocal obligations first incurred during the Harlem Ren

The “altogether astonishing” true story of a black American finding fame and fortune in Moscow and Constantinople at the turn of the 20th century (Booklist,

One of the most compelling, yet little known stories of race relations in the twentieth century is the account of blacks who chose to leave the United States to