2001•African American ReviewRequires access

New Negro, Old Left: African-American Writing and Communism between the Wars

James A. Miller, William J. Maxwell

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Introduction: Black and Red All Over?1. Kitchen Mechanics and Parlor Nationalists: Andy Razaf Black Bolshevism, and Harlem's Renaissance2. Home to Moscow: Claude McKay's The Negroes in America and the Race of Marxist Theory3. The Proletarian as New Negro the New Negro as Proletarian: Mike Gold Meets Claude McKay4. Scottsboro Delimited: White Bait Red Triangles, and Interracialism Between Men5. Black Belt/Black Folk: The End(s) of the Richard Wright--Zora Neale Hurston Debate6. Native Sons Divorce: A ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

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Key concepts: Communism, Left behind, History, Art, Ancient history, Literature, Political science, Psychology