Nationalism, Marxism, and African American Literature between the Wars

Argues that such writers as A. Philip Randolph, Langston Hughes, and Richard Wright, who often saw the world in terms of class struggle, did more to advance the anti-racist politics of African American letters than writers such as Countee Cullen, Alain Locke, and Marcus Garvey, who remained enmeshed in nationalist and racialist discourse.