Between the Lines: Mary Helen Washington and Farah Jasmine Griffin

The Other Blacklist explores the impact of the Left, the Communist Party, and the U.S. government spying operations on African American literature and culture during the Cold War.  Focused on six major African American writers and artists of the 1950s, this study shows how their Left affiliations enabled them to shape an aesthetic that maintained traditions of race radicalism and literary experimentation. Author Mary Helen Washington will be in conversation with Historian, Farah Jasmine Griffin. A book signing will follow.

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