The other blacklist : the African American literary and cultural left of the 1950s

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Mary Helen Washington recovers the vital role of 1950s leftist politics in the works and lives of modern African American writers and artists. While most histories of McCarthyism focus on the devastation of the blacklist and the intersection of leftist politics and American culture, few include the...

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Main Author: Washington, Mary Helen (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2014]
Subjects:
1900-1999
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Politics and literature > United States > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Right and left (Political science) in literature.
Cold War in literature.
American literature.
Politics and literature.
African Americans > Intellectual life.
African Americans.
Cold War (1945-1989) in literature.
American literature > African American authors.
United States.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Lloyd L. Brown: black fire in the cold war
  • Charles White: "Robeson with a brush and pencil"
  • Alice Childress: black, red, and feminist
  • When Gwendolyn Brooks wore red
  • Frank London Brown: the end of the Black Cultural Front and the turn toward civil rights
  • 1959: Spycraft and the black literary left
  • Epilogue: The example of Julian Mayfield.

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