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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... Struggle in Poetry 7. American Daughters , Fifth Columns , and Lonely Crusades : Purge , Emigration , and Exile in Chicago 148 181 Postscript : Bronzeville Today 201 Appendix 207 Notes 213 Index 236 Acknowledgments Bronzeville has a big ...
... Struggle in Poetry 7. American Daughters , Fifth Columns , and Lonely Crusades : Purge , Emigration , and Exile in Chicago 148 181 Postscript : Bronzeville Today 201 Appendix 207 Notes 213 Index 236 Acknowledgments Bronzeville has a big ...
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... struggle for freedom and democracy . Othello is an excellent start against slander , contumely and prejudice in art . ' The Defender editorial's central trope of a " cultural front " could have in 1942 conjured up a welter of images and ...
... struggle for freedom and democracy . Othello is an excellent start against slander , contumely and prejudice in art . ' The Defender editorial's central trope of a " cultural front " could have in 1942 conjured up a welter of images and ...
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... struggle . " 4 This turn had inspired the party's 1935 creation of the American Writers ' Congress . On June 4 , 1937 , American Communist Party General Secretary Earl Browder , speaking at the opening of the Second National American ...
... struggle . " 4 This turn had inspired the party's 1935 creation of the American Writers ' Congress . On June 4 , 1937 , American Communist Party General Secretary Earl Browder , speaking at the opening of the Second National American ...
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... struggle for a new " American Negro " culture.16 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 ...
... struggle for a new " American Negro " culture.16 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 ...
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... sponsored the auxiliary League of Struggle for Negro Rights and held in Chicago the founding convention of the National Unemployed Councils . In retrospect , these were crucial chapters in black Chicago and the white 6 INTRODUCTION.
... sponsored the auxiliary League of Struggle for Negro Rights and held in Chicago the founding convention of the National Unemployed Councils . In retrospect , these were crucial chapters in black Chicago and the white 6 INTRODUCTION.
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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 |