The other blacklist : the African American literary and cultural left of the 1950s / Mary Helen Washington.

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Washington, Mary Helen [author.]

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text

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computer

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online resource

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9780231526470
0231526474

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Other blacklist.DDC classification:

810.9/896073 23

LOC classification:

PS153.N5 W349 2014eb

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HU 1728

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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.

Summary: 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 activities of radical writers and artists from the Black Popular Front. Washington's work incorporates these black intellectuals back into our understanding of mid-twentieth-century African American literature and art and expands our understanding of the creative ferment energizing all of America during this period.

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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 activities of radical writers and artists from the Black Popular Front. Washington's work incorporates these black intellectuals back into our understanding of mid-twentieth-century African American literature and art and expands our understanding of the creative ferment energizing all of America during this period.