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Psychology Comes to Harlem :

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1421405415

(Number (ISBN

9781421405414

Erroneous ISBN

1421405199

Erroneous ISBN

1421405415

Erroneous ISBN

9781421405193

Title Proper

Psychology Comes to Harlem :

General Material Designation

[Book]

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Rethinking the Race Question in Twentieth-Century America /

First Statement of Responsibility

Jay Garcia.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Baltimore :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Johns Hopkins University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2012.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (232 pages)

Series Title

New studies in American intellectual and cultural history

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

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.

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"In the years preceding the modern civil rights era, cultural critics profoundly affected American letters through psychologically informed explorations of racial ideology and segregationist practice. Jay Garcia's probing look at how and why these critiques arose and the changes they wrought demonstrates the central role Richard Wright and his contemporaries played in devising modern antiracist cultural analysis. Departing from the largely accepted existence of a "Negro Problem," Wright and such literary luminaries as Ralph Ellison, Lillian Smith, and James Baldwin described and challenged a racist social order whose psychological undercurrents implicated all Americans and had yet to be adequately studied. Motivated by the elastic possibilities of clinical and academic inquiry, writers and critics undertook a rethinking of "race" and assessed the value of psychotherapy and psychological theory as antiracist strategies. Garcia examines how this new criticism brought together black and white writers and became a common idiom through fiction and nonfiction that attracted wide readerships. An illuminating picture of mid-twentieth-century American literary culture and intellectual life, Psychology Comes to Harlem reveals the critical and intellectual innovation of literary artists who bridged psychology and antiracism to challenge segregation."--Project Muse.

Title

Psychology comes to Harlem.

Baldwin, James,1924-1987-- Criticism and interpretation.

Wright, Richard,1908-1960-- Criticism and interpretation.

Baldwin, James,1924-1987-- Criticism and interpretation.

Wright, Richard,1908-1960-- Criticism and interpretation.

Baldwin, James,1924-1987.

Wright, Richard,1908-1960.

African Americans-- Intellectual life-- 20th century.

American literature-- African American authors-- History and criticism.

African Americans-- Intellectual life.

American literature-- African American authors.

Intellectual life.

LITERARY CRITICISM-- American-- General.

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

New York (State), New York, Harlem.

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LIT-- 004020

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Garcia, Jay,1972-

Date of Transaction

20200822182318.0

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[Book]

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