Dark mirror : African Americans and the Federal Writers' Project /

Shows how Black writers such as Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston and Ralph Ellison participating in the Federal Writer' Project of the 1930s responded to and shaped New Deal programs and ideology.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Butts, J. J. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [2021]
Subjects:	Federal Writers' Project > Influence. American literature > African American authors > History and criticism. African Americans > Social conditions. Liberalism > United States > History > 20th century. United States > Race relations > 20th century.

Table of Contents:

New world symphony: New Deal civic pluralism in the FWP guidebooks
This wise geolatry: modernization and urban planning in the FWP guidebooks
Other than what we seem: the folk histories of Hurston and Wright
They seek a city: the future of African America in FWP social histories and intertexts
Patterns of modernity: the urban folk, state power, and citizenship in Petry and Ellison
Conclusion: Irony and liberalism.