Psychology comes to Harlem : rethinking the race question in twentieth-century America / Jay Garcia.

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Main Author: Garcia, Jay, 1972-
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.
Series:New studies in American intellectual and cultural history.
Subjects:
Wright, Richard, > 1908-1960 > Criticism and interpretation.
Baldwin, James, > 1924-1987 > Criticism and interpretation.
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
African Americans > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Physical Description:x, 216 pages ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Richard Wright and "the unconscious machinery of race relations"
  • Richard Wright reading: the promise of social psychiatry
  • "The problem of race and minorities from below": the wartime cultural criticism of Chester Himes, Horace Cayton, Ralph Ellison and C.L.R. James
  • Strange fruit: Lillian Smith and the making of whiteness
  • Notes of a native son: James Baldwin in postwar America.