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Columbia University Press "In a brilliant work of historical reconstruction and (re)vision, Washington ... recast[s] the 1950s as a period of black radical critique ... and a flowering of black artistic imagination." - Robin D. G. Kelley Read an interview with Mary Helen Washington     Read an excerpt    Video of Mary Helen Washington discussing the book     Reviews     Table of Contents  The Other Blacklist The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s      Mary Helen Washington          Order Now and Save 30%! To save 30%, add the book to your shopping cart, and enter code OTHWAS in the "Coupon Code" field at check out.*    The e-book of  The Other Blacklist is available wherever e-books are sold!   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. 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.     Order Now and Save 30%!   $35.00 $24.50 Use discount code OTHWAS at check-out £24.00 | Cloth | 368 pages | 28 photos * Customers in the UK, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and South Africa should contact customer@wiley.com  FOLLOW COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS:

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