Place, diversity and solidarity

Abstract

twofold goal. His argument that African American and Third World writers activated an alternative global dialogue on totalitarian governance is convincing, and even if Rasberry might overestimate Wright’s contemporaneity, the discourses that he has restored do indeed have bearing on both historical and contemporary political discussions. It is also obvious that Race and the Totalitarian Century makes possible both a revisionist account of black cultural production from the decades after World War II in general and sheds new light on the works from this period by important writers such as W. E. B. Du Bois, Shirley Graham, and Richard Wright.