Dark Mirror: African Americans and the Federal Writers' Project

by J. J. Butts

Dark Mirror: African Americans and the Federal Writers' Project explores Black writers' engagement with the emerging welfare state. J. J. Butts highlights the conflicting understandings of culture and modernity that pervaded the New Deal's most ambitious and important cultural project of the 1930s, the Federal Writers' Project (FWP). FWP guidebooks produced by African American writers such as Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston, and Ralph Ellison...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814258034
• ISBN13: 9780814258033
• Release Date: July 2024
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"