Table of Contents:
  • 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.