TY  - BOOK
AU  - Washington,Mary Helen
TI  - The other blacklist: the African American literary and cultural left of the 1950s 
SN  - 0231152701
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - 20th century
KW  - American literature
KW  - African American authors
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Cold War in literature
KW  - Politics and literature
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Right and left (Political science) in literature
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages [313]-327) and index; Lloyd L. Brown: black fire in the cold war -- Charles White: "Robeson with a brush and pencil" -- Alice Childress: black, red, and feminist -- When Gwendolyn Brooks wore red -- Frank London Brown: the end of the black cultural front and the turn toward civil rights -- 1959: Spycraft and the black literary left -- Epilogue: the example of Julian Mayfield
N2  - 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
ER  -