Red diapers
Subtitle: growing up in the communist left
By: edited by Judy Kaplan and Linn Shapiro.
Contributors: Kaplan, Judy, 1949-; Shapiro, Linn.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
Subjects: Communism -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources; Children and politics -- History -- 20th century -- Sources
Description: Red Diapers is the first collection of autobiographical writings by children of American communists. These first-person memoirs, short stories, and poems reflect red diaper baby experiences spanning generations, cultural and ethnic backgrounds, and geographical areas.

This multi-author account of how it felt and what it meant to grow up Communist in twentieth-century America gives insight into the joys and perils of living in a subculture defined by its opposition to society's most deeply held values. Some of the works speak of fond memories of family activism, others recall a past full of ambivalence and pain. In disparate voices, the contributors elaborate on coming to terms with a political inheritance of radical politics.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Memories from the twenties / Peggy Dennis; title: California girlhood / Lil Carlson; title: From red diapers to protest banners / Ruth Hunter; title: Daughter and granddaughter of the Finnish left / Sirkka Tuomi Holm; title: Passage to Siberia / Doris C. Kaplan; title: The teachings of Karl Marx for boys and girls infiltrates Alabama / Marge Frantz; title: An ordinary life / Jeff Lawson; title: The old red granny / Mindy Rinkewich; title: December 1947 / Marianne Ware; title: Commiebastid / Albert Vetere Lannon; title: Proletaria and me: a memoir in progress / Dorothy M. Zellner; title: Southern discomfort / Maxine Defelice; title: Red sisters of the bourgeoisie / Rosalyn Fraad Baxandall and Harriet Fraad; title: What did I know and when did I know it? / Sonia Jaffe Robbins; title: Black and red all over / Marylouise Patterson; title: When life was a party / Stephanie Allan; title: Memoir / Rachel Fast Ben-Avi; title: Excerpt from pledge of allegiance / Mark Lapin; title: What's red hot and what's not: circa 1950s / Norma Allen; title: American heritage / Nina Olff; title: The little red superego / Gilda Zwerman; title: Two poems / Gene Dennis; title: Excerpt from in my mother's house / Kim Chernin; title: Mistaken identities / David Wellman