Langston Hughes and American Lynching Culture

Contents

Contents List of Figures ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1. The Red Summer of 1919: Finding Reassurance 18 2. The Scottsboro Case and World War II America: Poetic Anger 41 3. Negotiating Censorship in the 1950s: Lynching as Analogy 77 4. Poetry as Counternarrative: Retelling History 116 Conclusion 143 Notes 151 Bibliography 157 Index 163 ...