Psychology Comes to Harlem: Rethinking the Race Question in Twentieth-Century America

by Jay Garcia

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.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421405199
• ISBN13: 9781421405193
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher