New Negro, Old Left: African-American Writing and Communism Between the Wars by William J. Maxwell

New Negro, Old Left: African-American Writing and Communism Between the Wars

William J. Maxwell

272 pages • first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging reflective slow-paced
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Howard "Stretch" Johnson, a charismatic Harlemite who graduated from Cotton Club dancer to Communist Party youth leader, once claimed that in late 1930s New York "75% of black cultural figures had Party membership or maintained regular meaningful ...

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