Introduction: the birth of a nation -- American racism on trial and the poster child for Soviet antiracism -- "This is not bourgeois America": representations of American racial apartheid and Soviet racelessness -- The Scottsboro campaign: personalizing American racism and speaking antiracism -- African American architects of Soviet antiracism and the challenge of black and white -- The promises of Soviet antiracism and the integration of Moscow's International Lenin School -- Epilogue: Circus and going soft on American racism.