Table of Contents:
  • Radical Politics. I Have Seen Black Hands / Richard Wright
  • Wright's Afromodern Search for Political Freedom / Lewis R. Gordon
  • Richard Wright and the Critique of Class Theory / Cedric J. Robinson
  • Alternative Readings of Bigger Thomas / Cyrus Ernesto Zirakzadeh
  • Richard Wright's Mission: initiating a politics of the human / Marilyn Nissim-Sabat
  • Sexuality and Gender. Richard Wright and Black Women: imagining the feminine in The Outsider / Floyd W. Hayes III
  • Masculinity, Misogyny, and the Limits of Racial Community / Paul Gilroy
  • He's a Rapist, Even When He's Not: Richard Wright's account of Black male vulnerability in The raping of Willie McGee / Tommy J. Curry
  • Black Internationalism. Behind the McGee Case / Richard Wright
  • Seizing Freedom with Simone de Beauvoir / Lori J. Marso
  • Revisiting Richard Wright in Ghana: Black radicalism and the dialectics of diaspora / Kevin Kelly Gaines
  • Psychology and Black Liberation in Richard Wright's Black Power (1954) / Dorothy Stringer
  • Rhetorical Registers. Blueprint for Negro writing / Richard Wright
  • Floating facts on a sea of emotion: the literary journalism of Richard Wright / William Dow
  • Many dark mirrors of Richard Wright's 12 million Black voices / Perry S. Moskowitz
  • Richard Wright: the "nature" of politics-the "politics" of nature / James B. Haile III
  • Uncle Tom's Great-Grandchildren. Joe Louis uncovers dynamite / Richard Wright
  • Notes toward a political economy of life and death: reading Richard Wright with Frantz Fanon / Abdul R. JanMohamed
  • Reading Richard Wright beyond the carceral state: the politics of refusal in Black radical imagination / Laura Grattan
  • Slavery continued, freedom sought: Wright's political intellectual journey / Jane Anna Gordon.