- 272 pages
- English
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About this book
The Communist International's Popular Front campaign of the 1930s brought to the fore ideas that resonated in Chicago's African American community. Indeed, the Popular Front not only connected to the black experience of the era, but outlasted its Communist Party affiliation to serve as both model and inspiration for a postwar cultural insurrection led by African Americans.
With a new preface Bill V. Mullen updates his dynamic reappraisal of a critical moment in American cultural history. Mullen's study includes reassessments of the politics of Richard Wright's critical reputation and a provocative reading of class struggle in Gwendolyn Brooks' A Street in Bronzeville. He also takes an in-depth look at 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 African Americans; and the WPA-sponsored South Side Community Art Center.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface: What Goes Around Comes Around: Revisiting the Chicago Black Left
- Introduction
- 1 Chicago and the Politics of Reputation: Richard Wright’s Long Black Shadow
- 2 Turning White Space into Black Space: The Chicago Defender and the Creation of the Cultural Front
- 3 Artists in Uniform: The South Side Community Art Center and the Defense of Culture
- 4 Worker-Writers in Bronzeville: Negro Story and the African-American “Little” Magazine
- 5 Genre Politics/Cultural Politics: The Short Story and the New Black Fiction Market
- 6 Engendering the Cultural Front: Gwendolyn Brooks, Black Women, and Class Struggle in Poetry
- 7 American Daughters, Fifth Columns, and Lonely Crusades: Purge, Emigration, and Exile in Chicago
- Postscript: Bronzeville Today
- Appendix
- Notes
- Index