Fear of a Black and "Red" president -- Cold War civil rights and cultural rhetoric studies -- Un-American schooling: anticommunist discourse and Martin Luther King Jr. -- Essaying to be an exile: Richard Wright following the God that failed -- Writing Congress: the appeal of C.L.R. James's American studies -- Black is red all over again: President Obama's father figure Frank Marshall Davis -- Back to the billboard: the long civil rights movement still
Summary:
Offers a history of anticommunist rhetoric and its impact on the black freedom struggle in America
