Popular Fronts: Chicago and African-American Cultural Politics, 1935-46University of Illinois Press, 1999 - 242 páginas In a stunning revision of radical politics during the Popular Front period, Bill Mullen redefines the cultural renaissance of the 1930s and early 1940s as the fruit of an extraordinary rapprochement between African-American and white members of the U.S. Left struggling to create a new American Negro culture. A dynamic reappraisal of a critical moment in American cultural history, Popular Fronts includes a major reassessment of the politics of Richard Wright's critical reputation, a provocative reading of class struggle in Gwendolyn Brooks's A Street in Bronzeville, and in-depth examinations of the institutions that comprised Chicago's black popular front: The Chicago Defender, the period's leading black newspaper; Negro Story, the first magazine devoted to publishing short stories by and about black Americans; and the WPA-sponsored South Side Community Art Center. |
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... Put another way , I will argue that Chicago's late 1930s and 1940s " renaissance " was one of black and interracial cultural radicalism best described and un- derstood as a revised if belated realization of the Communist INTRODUCTION 5.
... Put another way , I will argue that Chicago's late 1930s and 1940s " renaissance " was one of black and interracial cultural radicalism best described and un- derstood as a revised if belated realization of the Communist INTRODUCTION 5.
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... described as " strainers " and " strivers ” after middle - class status , Cayton and Drake argued that competition for both real and cultural capital drove much of the day- to - day political longing and racial discourse for many in ...
... described as " strainers " and " strivers ” after middle - class status , Cayton and Drake argued that competition for both real and cultural capital drove much of the day- to - day political longing and racial discourse for many in ...
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... described the challenge and opportunity of Depression and wartime Bronzeville this way : " In Chicago we could dream of some day escaping by climbing over or burrowing under the high walls of the ghetto . " 45 Davis's metaphor of ...
... described the challenge and opportunity of Depression and wartime Bronzeville this way : " In Chicago we could dream of some day escaping by climbing over or burrowing under the high walls of the ghetto . " 45 Davis's metaphor of ...
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... described in this book . Wright's eminence in American letters and as a radical American writer has traditionally both illuminated and obscured important subtleties of black Chicago's political and cultural formations in the years up to ...
... described in this book . Wright's eminence in American letters and as a radical American writer has traditionally both illuminated and obscured important subtleties of black Chicago's political and cultural formations in the years up to ...
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Índice
Chicago and the Politics of Reputation Richard Wrights Long Black Shadow | 19 |
Turning White Space into Black Space The Chicago Defender and the Creation of the Cultural Front | 44 |
Artists in Uniform The South Side Community Art Center and the Defense of Culture | 75 |
WorkerWriters in Bronzeville Negro Story and the AfricanAmerican Little Magazine | 106 |
Genre PoliticsCultural Politics The Short Story and the New Black Fiction Market | 126 |
Engendering the Cultural Front Gwendolyn Brooks Black Women and Class Struggle in Poetry | 148 |
American Daughters Fifth Columns and Lonely Crusades Purge Emigration and Exile in Chicago | 181 |
Postscript Bronzeville Today | 201 |
Appendix | 207 |
Notes | 213 |
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Radical Relevance: Toward a Scholarship of the Whole Left Laura Gray-Rosendale,Steven Rosendale Pré-visualização limitada - 2012 |
Bitter Fruit: African American Women in World War II Maureen Honey Pré-visualização indisponível - 1999 |