Psychology Comes to Harlem : Rethinking the Race Question in Twentieth-Century America.
Garcia, Jay.
Psychology Comes to Harlem : Rethinking the Race Question in Twentieth-Century America. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (229 pages) - New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History Series . - New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History Series .
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Richard Wright Writing: The Unconscious Machinery of Race Relations -- 2 Richard Wright Reading: The Promise of Social Psychiatry -- 3 Race and Minorities from Below: The Wartime Cultural Criticism of Chester Himes, Horace Cayton, Ralph Ellison, and C. L. R. James -- 4 Strange Fruit: Lillian Smith and the Making of Whiteness -- 5 Notes of a Native Son: James Baldwin in Postwar America -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Essay on Sources -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
An illuminating picture of mid-twentieth-century American literary culture and learned life, Psychology Comes to Harlem reveals the critical and intellectual innovation of literary artists who bridged psychology and antiracism to challenge segregation.
9781421405414
Wright, Richard,-1908-1960-Criticism and interpretation.
Baldwin, James,-1924-1987-Criticism and interpretation.
American literature-African American authors-History and criticism.
African Americans-Intellectual life-20th century.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.)-Intellectual life-20th century.
Electronic books.
PS153.N5 G24 2012
810.9/896073
Psychology Comes to Harlem : Rethinking the Race Question in Twentieth-Century America. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (229 pages) - New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History Series . - New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History Series .
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Richard Wright Writing: The Unconscious Machinery of Race Relations -- 2 Richard Wright Reading: The Promise of Social Psychiatry -- 3 Race and Minorities from Below: The Wartime Cultural Criticism of Chester Himes, Horace Cayton, Ralph Ellison, and C. L. R. James -- 4 Strange Fruit: Lillian Smith and the Making of Whiteness -- 5 Notes of a Native Son: James Baldwin in Postwar America -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Essay on Sources -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
An illuminating picture of mid-twentieth-century American literary culture and learned life, Psychology Comes to Harlem reveals the critical and intellectual innovation of literary artists who bridged psychology and antiracism to challenge segregation.
9781421405414
Wright, Richard,-1908-1960-Criticism and interpretation.
Baldwin, James,-1924-1987-Criticism and interpretation.
American literature-African American authors-History and criticism.
African Americans-Intellectual life-20th century.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.)-Intellectual life-20th century.
Electronic books.
PS153.N5 G24 2012
810.9/896073