{"product_id":"the-other-blacklist-the-african-american-literary-and-cultural-left-of-the-1950s","title":"The Other Blacklist by Mary Washington","description":"\u003ch2\u003eThe Other Blacklist: The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s by Mary Washington\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMary Helen Washington\u003c\/strong\u003e recovers the vital role of 1950s leftist politics in the works and lives of modern African American writers and artists.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhile 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWashington'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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMary 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003eShe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHer study recounts the targeting of African American as well as white writers during the McCarthy era, reconstructs the events of the \u003cstrong\u003e1959 Black Writers' Conference\u003c\/strong\u003e in New York, and argues for the ongoing influence of the Black Popular Front decades after it folded.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDefining 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bust-Down Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50306196767035,"sku":"023115271X","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0855\/2077\/7531\/files\/9780231152716.jpg?v=1776259174","url":"https:\/\/bustdownbooks.com\/products\/the-other-blacklist-the-african-american-literary-and-cultural-left-of-the-1950s","provider":"Bust-Down Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}