Article: Stacy I. Morgan. Rethinking Social Realism: African American Art and Literature, 1930-1953.(Book Review)

Stacy I. Morgan. Rethinking Social Realism: African American Art and Literature, 19301953. Athens: U of Georgia P, 2004. 366 pp. $54.95 cloth/$24.95 paper.

Stacy I. Morgan's book Rethinking Social Realism could not have appeared at a better time. It is a reassessment, as the title suggests, and a reminder of the pertinence of culture and art in a people's struggle for social justice.

The book comes out at a time when a major American (and universal) ideal--respect for the humanity of others--is being severely challenged by the self-serving phenomena of intolerant nativism and rabid individualism. The first one is subsumed in a jingoistic war on ...

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