New Negro, Old Left: African-American Writing and Communism Between the Wars
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Howard "Stretch" Johnson, a charismatic Harlemite who graduated from Cotton Club dancer to Communist Party youth leader, once claimed that in late 1930s New York "75% of black cultural figures had Party membership or maintained regular meaningful contact with the Party." He stretched the truth, but barely. In a broad-ranging, revisionary account of the extensive relationship between African-American literary culture and Communism in the 1920s and...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0231114257
ISBN13:9780231114257
Release Date:July 1999
Publisher:Columbia University Press
Length:272 Pages
Weight:0.90 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
Related Subjects
African-American Studies American Literature Classics Communism & Socialism Criticism & Theory History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Movements & Periods Political Ideologies Political Science Politics & Government Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences Specific DemographicsCustomer Reviews
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