Mary Helen Washington and Farah Jasmine Griffin
Video: Mary Helen Washington
Wednesday, March 11, 2015, 6:30pm to 8:00pm
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
515 Malcolm X Blvd
Harlem
The Other Blacklist explores the impact of the Left, the Communist Party, and the U.S. government spying operations on African American literature and culture during the Cold War. Focused on six major African American writers and artists of the 1950s, this study shows how their Left affiliations enabled them to shape an aesthetic that maintained traditions of race radicalism and literary experimentation. Author will be in conversation with Historian, Farah Jasmine Griffin. A book signing will follow.
Mary Helen Washington Video from UMD College of Arts & Humanities on Vimeo.
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