The other blacklist : the African American literary and cultural left of the 1950s / Mary Helen Washington ; Julia Kushnirsky, cover design ; Charles White, cover image.
2014
PS153.N5 .W349 2014eb
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The other blacklist : the African American literary and cultural left of the 1950s / Mary Helen Washington ; Julia Kushnirsky, cover design ; Charles White, cover image.
ISBN
9780231526470 (electronic book)
9780231152709
9780231152709
Published
New York ; Chichester, [England] : Columbia University Press, 2014.
Copyright
©2014
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xviii, 347 pages) : illustrations
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PS153.N5 .W349 2014eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
810.9/896073
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. Mary Helen Washington reads four representative writers--Lloyd Brown, Frank London Brown, Alice Childress, and Gwendolyn Brooks--and surveys the work of the visual artist Charles White. She traces resonances of leftist ideas and activism in their artistic achievements and follows their balanced critique of the mainstream liberal and conservative political and literary spheres. Her study recounts the targeting of African American as well as white writers during the McCarthy era, reconstructs the events of the 1959 Black Writers' Conference in New York, and argues for the ongoing influence of the Black Popular Front decades after it folded. Defining the contours of a distinctly black modernism and its far-ranging radicalization of American politics and culture, Washington fundamentally reorients scholarship on African American and Cold War literature and life." -- Publisher's description.
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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.
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.