Left of the Color Line : Race, Radicalism, and Twentieth-Century Literature of the United States

Abbreviations vii Bill V. Mullen James Smethurst Introduction 1(12) Eric Schocket Modernism and the Aesthetics of Management, or T.S. Eliot's Labor Literature 13(26) William J. Maxwell E.B. Eyes: The Bureau Reads Claude McKay 39(28) Anthony Dawahare The Specter of Radicalism in Alain Locke's 67(20) The New Negro Bill V. Mullen W.E.B. Du Bois, Darle Princess, and the Afro-Asian International 87(20) B.V. Olguin Barrios of the World Unite!: Regionalism, Transnationalism, and Internationalism in Tejano War Poetry from the Mexican Revolution to World War II 107(34) Alan Wald Narrating Nationalisms: Black Marxism and Jewish Communists through the Eyes of Harold Cruse 141(22) Barbara Foley From Communism to Brotherhood: The Drafts of Invisible Man 163(20) Mary Helen Washington Alice Childress, Lorraine Hansberry, and Claudia Jones: Black Women 183(22) Write the Popular Front Rachel Rubin Voice of the Cracker: Don West Reinvents the Appalachian 205(18) Michelle Stephens The First Negro Matinee Idol: Harry Belafonte and American Culture in the 1950's 223(16) Fred Ho Bamboo That Snaps Back!: Resistance and Revolution in Asian Pacific American Working-Class and Left-Wing Expressive Culture 239(20) James Smethurst Poetry and Sympathy: New York, the Left, and the Rise of Black Arts 259(20) Marcial González A Marxist Critique of Borderlands Postmodernism: Adorno's Negative Dialectics and Chicano Cultural Criticism 279(20) Cary Nelson The Letters the Presidents Did Not Release: Radical Scholarship and the Legacy of the American Volunteers in Spain 299(16) Contributors 315(4) Index 319