{"product_id":"letters-from-langston-9780520285347","title":"Letters from Langston","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLangston Hughes, one of America's greatest writers, was an innovator of jazz poetry and a leader of the Harlem Renaissance whose poems and plays resonate widely today. This indispensable volume of letters between Hughes and four leftist confidants sheds light on his life and politics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The letters are held together by well-researched notes on black intellectuals' battles for racial and economic justice, and they paint a vivid picture of the poet's exuberant mind... Letters from Langston gives an excellet account of the racial and political challenges faced by this extraordinary writer.\" -- Rosemary Booth The Gay \u0026amp; Lesbian Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword by Robin D. G. Kelley  Preface  Acknowledgments   Introduction: The Poet, the Crawfords, and the Pattersons   PART ONE: THE TUMULTUOUS 1930S   1 * Wither White Philanthropy-Thank You and God for \"The Weary Blues\": October 1930-January 1932  2 * Moscow Bound in Black and White: March 1932-February 1933  3 * Horror in Scottsboro, Alabama, and War in Spain: May 1933-November 1937  4 * A People's Theatre in Harlem and Black Anti-Fascism on the Rise: January 1938-December 1939   PART TWO: THE FAR-REACHING 1940S   5 * Early Political Repression: January 1940- November 1941  6 * World War II and Black Radical Organizing: June 1942-July 1944  7 * Ebb and Flow-To Chicago, New York, San Francisco, and Back: July 1946- November 1949   PART THREE: THE FEARSOME 1950S AND THE PROMISING 1960S   8 * McCarthyism at Home, Independence Movements Abroad: July 1950-December 1959  9 * Civil Rights, Black Arts, and the People's Poet: February 1961-August 1966   Glossary Personae  Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53733850284375,"sku":"9780520285347","price":22.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/letters-from-langston-9780520285347","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}