Popular fronts : Chicago and African-American cultural politics, 1935-46 /
Mullen, Bill,1959-
Urbana : University of Illinois Press,
c1999.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-235) and index.
Chicago and the politics of reputation: Richard Wright's long black shadow -- Turning white space into Black space: the Chicago Defender and the creation of the cultural front -- Artists in uniform: the South Side Community Art Center and the defense of culture -- Worker-writers in Bronzeville: Negro story and the African-American "Little" magazine -- Genre politics/cultural politics: the short story and the new Black fiction market -- Engendering the cultural front: Gwendolyn Brooks, Black women, and class struggle in poetry -- American daughters, fifth columns, and lonely crusades: purge, emigration, and exile in Chicago -- Postscript: Bronzeville today.
American literature
American literature
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African Americans
African Americans
African Americans in literature.