Hei Ren de Jie Fang [Negro Liberation]

Beijing, 1954. About very good.. [4],282,[1]pp. Original pictorial wrappers. Light foxing and wear, ink stamp on rear cover and half title. Minor toning to text. Rare Chinese translation of Harry Haywood's important political work, first published in 1948. Harry Haywood (1898-1985) was an early Black activist in the Communist Party and the first Black student at the Lenin School in Moscow in 1926. He developed a theory called the "Black belt," which advocated for self-determination of African Americans through the formation of a separate nation. Haywood laid out many of these theories in the present work, in which he frames the struggle of African Americans against colonialism, nationalism, and legal discrimination in the Jim Crow South. Despite his support of the movement, as well as his leadership of the Communist Party's domestic "Negro Department," Haywood's stance on separation of the races led to his estrangement from the Party, and he was expelled in 1959, though he continued to work for the cause for the rest of his life. We locate five copies of this edition in OCLC, with only one of those in North America, at Stanford University.