Sarah C. Dunstan is a historian of twentieth-century France and the United States, focusing on questions of race, rights and gender. Sarah C. Dunstan is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Queen Mary University London.

'Dunstan persuasively argues that black francophone thinkers and their African American counterparts drew upon the democratic ideals of the French and American Republics to fight racism, and in the process influenced each other. Race, Rights and Reform is well-written, deeply researched, and thoughtfully framed.' Alice L. Conklin, Ohio State University

• Introduction; 1. Black is a country, n'est-ce pas? Race, rights and nation in the Wilsonian moment; 2. Anti-Imperial comrades: black radicalism and the communist possibility; 3. La vogue nègre: racial renaissance at the intersection of republic, empire and democracy; 4. Civilization's gone to hell? Revolutionary poetry, humanism and the crisis of sovereignty; 5. Give me liberty!: Black intellectual struggles against fascism in the fight for democracy; 6. 'A new fascism, the American brand': anti-communism, anti-imperialism and the struggle for the west; 7. 'The Sword of Damocles': Présence Africaine and decolonization in the face of the Cold War; Epilogue.

Sarah C. Dunstan is a historian of twentieth-century France and the United States, focusing on questions of race, rights and gender. Sarah C. Dunstan is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Queen Mary University London.

'Dunstan persuasively argues that black francophone thinkers and their African American counterparts drew upon the democratic ideals of the French and American Republics to fight racism, and in the process influenced each other. Race, Rights and Reform is well-written, deeply researched, and thoughtfully framed.' Alice L. Conklin, Ohio State University

• Introduction; 1. Black is a country, n'est-ce pas? Race, rights and nation in the Wilsonian moment; 2. Anti-Imperial comrades: black radicalism and the communist possibility; 3. La vogue nègre: racial renaissance at the intersection of republic, empire and democracy; 4. Civilization's gone to hell? Revolutionary poetry, humanism and the crisis of sovereignty; 5. Give me liberty!: Black intellectual struggles against fascism in the fight for democracy; 6. 'A new fascism, the American brand': anti-communism, anti-imperialism and the struggle for the west; 7. 'The Sword of Damocles': Présence Africaine and decolonization in the face of the Cold War; Epilogue.