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

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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Autor principal: Washington, Mary Helen (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York [New York] : Columbia University Press [2014]
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.