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Author:

Garcia, Jay, 1972-

Title:

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

Publisher:

Johns Hopkins University Press,

Copyright Date:

2012

Description:

x, 216 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
African Americans--Intellectual life--20th century.
Wright, Richard,--1908-1960--Criticism and interpretation.
Baldwin, James,--1924-1987--Criticism and interpretation.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Intellectual life--20th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Richard Wright and the "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.

Series:

New studies in American intellectual and cultural history

ISBN:

1421405415 (electronic)
9781421405414 (electronic)
1421405199 (hbk. : acid-free paper)
9781421405193 (hbk. : acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)748674635

LCCN:

2011034757

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)