Claim: Barbara Clare Foley, Distinguished Professor of English at Rutgers University-Newark, is an author whose work is helpful in gaining a better understanding of creating a culture sensitive to issues of race, class and gender in the effort to build an egalitarian society and she also explores the radical origins of the Harlem Renaissance.
Evidence: Barbara Foley (born 1948), Distinguished Professor of English at Rutgers University-Newark, focuses her research and teaching on U.S. literary radicalism, African American literature, and Marxist criticism. that is a must read for anyone interested in gaining a better understanding of the difficult project of creating a radical culture sensitive to issues of race, class and gender in the effort to build an egalitarian society." Foley's third book, Spectres of 1919: Class and Nation in the Making of the New Negro (Illinois, 2003), explores the radical origins of the Harlem Renaissance.