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Examining how writers and musicians respond to attempts to define and categorize inequality in moral terms, Culture, the Arts and Inequality: American Artists and Social Justice analyses the writers and artists who challenge the moral categories through which inequality has been maintained and mobilized.

Beginning with the work of Langston Hughes, whose fears for the African-American community echo fifty years later in Stevie Wonderâs urban chronicles, and including key American voices such as Nelson Algren, Thomas McGrath, Ann Petry and Gwendolyn Brooks, as well as âœGodfather of Rapâ Gil Scott Heron, this book tackles the mechanisms that compelled writers and musicians to re-assert the worth and value of those they wrote about, opposing the fixing in place of moral classifications applied to cultures and people deemed of little worth. Without adequate analysis of those classifications, and particularly the role of moral attribution in identifying and categorizing thos

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      Publisher: Taylor & Francis
      Publication Date: 3/25/2025
      ISBN13: 9781032441399, 978-1032441399
      ISBN10: 1032441399
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      Book Synopsis

      Examining how writers and musicians respond to attempts to define and categorize inequality in moral terms, Culture, the Arts and Inequality: American Artists and Social Justice analyses the writers and artists who challenge the moral categories through which inequality has been maintained and mobilized.

      Beginning with the work of Langston Hughes, whose fears for the African-American community echo fifty years later in Stevie Wonderâs urban chronicles, and including key American voices such as Nelson Algren, Thomas McGrath, Ann Petry and Gwendolyn Brooks, as well as âœGodfather of Rapâ Gil Scott Heron, this book tackles the mechanisms that compelled writers and musicians to re-assert the worth and value of those they wrote about, opposing the fixing in place of moral classifications applied to cultures and people deemed of little worth. Without adequate analysis of those classifications, and particularly the role of moral attribution in identifying and categorizing thos

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