Volume 8, Number 1 (2008)
Class, Culture and Public Intellectuals
Introducing 'Class, Culture, and Public Intellectuals': a Special Issue of Reconstruction
Graham Barnfield, Victor Cohen, and Joseph G. Ramsey
Contributors
Graham Barnfield, Victor Cohen, and Joseph G. Ramsey
1. Popular Front Legacies and Alternatives
Anatomy of an Anticommunist Fabrication: The Death of Oliver Law, An Historiographical Investigation
Grover Furr
Bureau of Letters: Literary Federalism, the Hoover Raids, and the New Negro Renaissance
William J. Maxwell
L'America: Woman, Artist, Landscape - Frida Kahlo, Georgia O'Keeffe and Emily Carr, Painters as Theorists of the National Imaginary
Paula Rabinowitz
SNYC, Freedomways, and the Influence of the Popular Front in the South on the Black Arts Movement
James Smethurst
Telling the Truth in the Headquarters of Lying: Intellectuals Writing for Fortune Magazine in the 1930s
Robert Vanderlan
2. Interviews
Reading Forward' from the Left: An interview with Barbara Foley
Joseph G. Ramsey
Reconstructing the 'Humanscape' of Left Culture and Commitment: An Interview with Alan Wald
Joseph G. Ramsey
What is the Opposite of Bullshit? Possibilities of Intellectual Engagement, Since Sartre: An Interview with Bill Martin - Part 1
Joseph G. Ramsey
What is the Opposite of Bullshit? Possibilities of Intellectual Engagement, Since Sartre: An Interview with Bill Martin - Part 2
Joseph G. Ramsey
3. Into the Cold War
Canons of Dissent: Anarchy, the 'Cold War' Canon, and the Anti-Statist Left in the United States
James Patrick Brown
The New Yorker's 'Hiroshima': Tiffany Diamonds, Caribbean Cruises, and the Atomic Bomb
Christopher D. Craig
Morris Ernst's Troubled Legacy
Brett Gary
Defending Left Pedagogy: U.S. Communist Schools Fight Back Against the SACB . . . and Lose (1953-1957)
Marvin E. Gettleman
4. Reconsiderations and Appreciations
Shadowy Aesthetics: The Cultural Front, Literary Judgments and Perceptions of Mass Entertainment
Graham Barnfield
The Dialectics of Hope: Marxism and Method in The Cultural Front
Charles D. Cunningham
Tillie Olsen (1912-2007)
Anthony Dawahare
Before Moynihan: Stanley Elkins's Slavery(1959), Psychoanalytic Discourse and the Cold War
Mark J. Goodman
5. Parallels and Paradoxes of the 21st Century: Limitations of the Public Intellectual
The New York Intellectuals, the Johnson-Forest Tendency, and the Crisis of Public Intellectuals
Manuel Yang
6. Review Essays and Reviews
On Abdul R. JanMohamed's The Death-Bound-Subject: Richard Wright's Archaeology of Death
George Ciccariello-Maher
Guest Editors
Graham Barnfield
Joseph Ramsey
Victor Cohen
Issue Information
Title: Class, Culture and Public Intellectuals
Volume 8, Number 1
Winter, 2008
Graphic by Sean Lane