Black Belt and Border Territory
- Title:
- Black Belt and Border Territory
- Alternate Title:
- Black Belt and Border Territory
- Collection:
- Persuasive Maps: PJ Mode Collection
- Creator:
- Allen, James S.
- Date:
- 1936
- Posted Date:
- 2017-04-14
- ID Number:
- 2114.01
- Collection Number:
- 8548
- File Name:
- PJM_2114_01.jpg
- Style/Period:
- 1920 - 1939
- Subject:
- Bias
Communism & Cold War
Slavery/Race - Measurement:
- 11 x 16 (centimeters, height x width)
- Notes:
- Sol Auerbach became a radical as an undergraduate, traveled to Russia in 1927, and joined the American Communist Party. He adopted the name "James S. Allen" while living in the south in the early 1930s and producing "Southern Worker," a Communist publication focused primarily on the plight of the region's poor black population. Solomon 1998, 85, 98. This map illustrates Allen's seminal work, "The Negro Question in the United States," a Marxist-Leninist work advocating self-determination for the "Black Belt" of the south where African Americans were in the majority. Allen also produced a number of pamphlets setting out versions of the same proposal. See, e.g., ID #2086, "Negro Liberation" (1938), in which he called for a "Soviet Solution of the National Question," concluding that " the Communist program of national liberation is best able to achieve both the equality of peoples and the most favorable conditions for the advance of socialism." (Pp. 34, 38).
Years later, Allen's maps were used to support racist, anti-communist arguments. See ID #1363, "Negro Program of Communist Party" (1960); #2117, "Reds Promote Racial War" (1958).
For further information on the Collector’s Notes and a Feedback/Contact Link, see https://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/content/about-collection-personal-statement and https://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/content/feedback-and-contact - Source:
- Allen, James S. 1936.The Negro Question in the United States. New York: International Publishers.
- Cite As:
- P.J. Mode collection of persuasive cartography, #8548. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
- Repository:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Archival Collection:
- P.J. Mode collection of persuasive cartography
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- For important information about copyright and use, see http://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/copyright.