001477628 000__ 06748nam\a22010695i\4500 001477628 001__ 1477628 001477628 003__ DE-B1597 001477628 005__ 20231026034819.0 001477628 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001477628 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001477628 008__ 230103t20142014nyu\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001477628 019__ $$a(OCoLC)1302163639 001477628 020__ $$a9780823256563 001477628 0247_ $$a10.1515/9780823256563$$2doi 001477628 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)623926 001477628 035__ $$a(OCoLC)1301547215 001477628 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001477628 0410_ $$aeng 001477628 044__ $$anyu$$cUS-NY 001477628 050_4 $$aHX84.J65$$b.J646 2014eb 001477628 072_7 $$aHIS037070$$2bisacsh 001477628 08204 $$a324.273/75092$$223 001477628 1001_ $$aJohnson, Howard Eugene, $$eauthor.$$4aut$$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 001477628 24512 $$aA Dancer in the Revolution :$$bStretch Johnson, Harlem Communist at the Cotton Club /$$cHoward Eugene Johnson. 001477628 264_1 $$aNew York, NY : $$bFordham University Press, $$c[2014] 001477628 264_4 $$c©2014 001477628 300__ $$a1 online resource (216 p.) 001477628 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001477628 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001477628 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001477628 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001477628 50500 $$tFrontmatter -- $$tContents -- $$tForeword -- $$tAcknowledgments -- $$tTimeline -- $$tPart I -- $$t1 Early Days -- $$t2 Harlem and the Cotton Club -- $$t3 Moving Up -- $$t4 Show Biz -- $$t5 Joining the Party -- $$tPart II -- $$t6 The Young Communist League -- $$t7 The War Years -- $$t8 Back Home -- $$t9 La Lucha Continua -- $$tPart III -- $$t10 Starting Over -- $$t11 Malimwu -- $$t12 The Cotton Club Revisited -- $$t13 Martin Luther King Day in Hawaii -- $$t14 Paris to Texas and Home Again -- $$tNotes -- $$tFurther Reading -- $$tMap of Harlem Nightclubs in the 1930s and '40s -- $$tHoward E. Johnson's Curriculum Vitae -- $$tIndex 001477628 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001477628 520__ $$aThe life of Howard Johnson, nicknamed "Stretch" because of his height (6'5"), epitomizes the cultural and political odyssey of a generation of African Americans who transformed the United States from a closed society to a multiracial democracy. Johnson's long-awaited memoir traces his path from firstborn of a multiclass/multiethnic" family in New Jersey to dancer in Harlem's Cotton Club to communist youth leader and, later, professor of Black studies. A Dancer in the Revolution is a powerful statement about Black resilience and triumph amid subtle and explicit racism in the United States.Johnson's engaging, beautifully written memoir provides a window into everyday life in Harlem-neighborhood life, arts and culture, and politics-from the 1930s to the 1970s, when the contemporary Black community was being formed. A Dancer in the Revolution explores Johnson's twenty-plus years in the Communist Party andilluminates in compelling detail how the Harlem branch functioned and flourished in the 1930s and '40s. Johnson thrived as a charismatic leader, using the connections he built up as an athlete and dancer to create alliances between communist organizations and a cross-section of the Black community. In his memoir, Johnson also exposes the homoerotic tourism that was a feature of Harlem's nightlife in the 1930s. Some of America's leading white literary, musical, and artistic figures were attracted to Harlem not only for the community's artistic creativity but to engage in illicit sex-gay and straight-with their Black counterparts.A Dancer in the Revolution is an invaluable contribution to the literature on Black political thought and pragmatism. It reveals the unique place that Black dancers and artists hold in civil rights pursuits and anti-racism campaigns in the United States and beyond. 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