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Psychology Comes to Harlem : Rethinking the Race Question in Twentieth-Century America.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History SeriesPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (229 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781421405414
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Psychology Comes to HarlemDDC classification:
  • 810.9/896073
LOC classification:
  • PS153.N5 G24 2012
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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