Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-156) and index
Black nationalist discourse in the postwar period -- The dual nationalism of Alain Locke's The new Negro -- The dance of nationalism in the Harlem Renaissance -- Marxism and Black proletarian literary theory -- Langston Hughes's radical poetry and the "end of race" -- Richard Wright's critique of nationalist desire -- Beyond twentieth-century nationalisms in the study of African American culture
During and after the Harlem Renaissance, two intellectual forces nationalism and Marxism clashed and changed the future of African American writing
