Index
| African American civil rights movement: beginning of, 10, 222; under attack by reactionaries, 21, 159; and anti-imperialism, 40; and the postcivil rights generation, 66; marginalization of, 86; and black culture, 130; and the American Communist Party, 139; effects of on U.S. society, 143; and Marxism, 145; as perceived by Hughes, 153–54, 181–83 | |
| African American working class: and party-building, 39; position of in the U.S. class struggle, 41, 82–91, 98–99, 103; of Harlem, 46, 149–54, 217; and Garveyism, 51; and the blues, 55, 113, 118–19, 124; and art, 68, 155, 160, 205; relationship of to the American Communist Party, 73–76, 80, 97, 189, 224– 25; and class-consciousness, 112–17, 121; and popular culture, 125, 131–33, 136, 141, 164, 224 | |
| Ahmad, Aijaz, 26–27, 40–41 | |
| Allen, Theodore W., 21, 50–51, 84–86, 120, 143–44, 201, 224 | |
| American anticommunism, 2, 10, 107, 137–41, 157–62, 183–84, 190–92, 22022, 224–25 | |
| American communist movement: relationship of to Hughes, 8–10, 87–97, 107–8, 131, 137–45, 154–57, 162, 220– 21, 224–25; relationship of to black nationalism, 39, 74–77, 82, 100, 189, 226; position of on white supremacism, 51, 78; and"non-Americanism," 69, 73; and Afro-Caribbean politics, 70; in Harlem, 73, 78–79, 105; and the Popular Front, 80–81, 84–86; and W. E. B. Du Bois, 82; use of Lenin's self-determination thesis by, 100–102, 132; and African American intellectuals, 129 | |
| American socialist nationalism, 42, 154 | |
| American studies, 2–5, 26, 38, 46–49, 209, 219, 222 | |
| Anderson, Perry, 16–19 | |
| Anti-imperialism, 22, 40, 100 | |
| Bacon's Rebellion, 85 | |
| Baker, Houston A., Jr., 60, 65–66, 104, 129, 155 | |
| Baldwin, Kate, 98 | |
| Baraka, Amiri: aesthetic theory of, 8, 156, 210; view of on American studies, 27–29, 44, 49; and Marxism, 37–39; position of on cultural nationalism, 40, 57–58; embrace of anticolonial revolutionary nationalism by, 41, 201, 204; theory of the blues, 54, 72–74, 110–14, 221; on the African American |
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Book title: Socialist Joy in the Writing of Langston Hughes.
Contributors: Jonathan Scott - Author.
Publisher: University of Missouri Press.
Place of publication: Columbia, MO.
Publication year: 2006.
Page number: 245.
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