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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463888803321

Autore

Garcia Jay <1972->

Titolo

Psychology comes to Harlem [[electronic resource] ] : rethinking the race question in twentieth-century America / / Jay Garcia

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012

ISBN

1-4214-0541-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (229 p.)

Collana

New studies in American intellectual and cultural history

Disciplina

810.9/896073

Soggetti

American literature - African American authors - History and criticism

African Americans - Intellectual life - 20th century

Electronic books.

Harlem (New York, N.Y.) Intellectual life 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.