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Overview
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 conflict in Gwendolyn Brooks's poem "A Street in Bronzeville", and in-depth examinations of the institutions that comprised Chicago's black cultural renaissance: 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 Arts Center.
Book Details
Published
June 1, 1999
Publisher
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1999.
Pages
256
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780252067488