Popular Fronts : Chicago and African-American Cultural Politics, 1935-46
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| Title: | Popular Fronts : Chicago and African-American Cultural Politics, 1935-46 |
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| Description: | 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. |
| Authors: | Bill V Mullen |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | African Americans--Illinois--Chicago--Social conditions, Authors, American--Homes and haunts--Illinois--Chicago, African Americans--Illinois--Chicago--Intellectual life, American literature--African American authors--History and criticism, American literature--20th century--History and criticism, American literature--Illinois--Chicago--History and criticism, African Americans in literature |
| Categories: | SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI), POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | 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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| ISBN: | 9780252081071 9780252098017 |
