Tag: Mary Helen Washington

March 9, 2015

Mary Helen Washington at the Schomburg Center on Wednesday

Come hear Mary Helen Washington discuss her new book “The Other Blacklist: The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s,” Wednesday night with Farah Jasmine Griffin.

February 19, 2015

The Other Blacklist — An Interview with Mary Helen Washington

Mary Helen Washington, author of “The Other Blacklist,” discusses how leftist politics shaped African American literature and culture.

June 2, 2014

June Author Events: The Collapse of Western Civilization, Blacklists, Wine, and More!

Author events this month include appearances from around the world and range from the collapse of Western civilization to wine: Naomi Oreskes, co-author of The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future will talk about the book with...

April 10, 2014

Excerpt from The Other Blacklist: The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s by Mary Helen Washington

The following is an excerpt from the introduction to The Other Blacklist: The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s, by Mary Helen Washington. In this excerpt Washington discusses the important, but often overlooked, role of the Communist...

April 9, 2014

Video: Mary Helen Washington on African American and the Communist Party

In the following video, Mary Helen Washington, author of The Other Blacklist: The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s, explains how her Catholic upbringing in the 1950s led to an interest in the relationship between African Americans...

April 8, 2014

Interview with Mary Helen Washington, author of The Other Blacklist: The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s

“I’m trying to restore that tradition of mid-century black left radical resistance, so that we don’t remember the 1950s only as the era of ‘integration’ but as the era of black civil rights radicalism. I’m restoring the other blacklist, the...

April 1, 2014

Umami, Watchdogs, Blacklists, The Hockey Stick and More April Author Events

A variety of Columbia University Press will be traveling from coast to coast to talk about their books in April. Among them are Dean Starkman, who will be talking about his new book The Watchdog That Didn’t Bark: The Financial...

March 18, 2014

New Book Tuesday: Restaurants, the Blacklist, the Dirty Art of Poetry, and More New Books!

The following books are now available: Fashioning Appetite: Restaurants and the Making of Modern Identity Joanne Finkelstein The Other Blacklist: The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s Mary Helen Washington Guilty Knowledge, Guilty Pleasure: The Dirty Art...