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

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3. Communism and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century
4. Socialism and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century
5. Black nationalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century
6. American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
7. African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
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