Psychology Comes to Harlem: Rethinking the Race Question in Twentieth-Century America

(Part of the New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History Series)

by Jay Garcia

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In the years preceding the modern civil rights era, cultural critics profoundly affected American letters through psychologically informed explorations of racial ideology and segregationist practice. Jay Garcia's probing look at how and why these critiques arose and the changes they wrought demonstrates the central role Richard Wright and his contemporaries played in devising modern antiracist cultural analysis.

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Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1421405199

ISBN13:9781421405193

Release Date:May 2012

Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press

Length:232 Pages

Weight:1.00 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Age Range:22 years and up

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

Related Subjects

Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Psychology Social Science Social Sciences

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Psychology Comes to Harlem: Rethinking the Race Question in Twentieth-Century America

(Part of the New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History Series)

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