Out of the Ashes: African American Responses to the Second Italo-Ethiopian War Undergraduate
Abstract
Writing in 1938, two years after Fascist Italy conquered Ethiopia, the eminent African American intellectual and columnist George S. Schuyler proclaimed the Rise of the Black Internationale. Having faced the travails of white imperialism for over a century, Schuyler wrote of a new Negro, a more informed Negro, that is “no longer blindly worshipful of his rulers…