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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Howard Eugene Johnson , Wendy Johnson , Mark D. NaisonPublisher: Fordham University Press Imprint: Fordham University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.431kg ISBN: 9780823256532ISBN 10: 0823256537 Pages: 216 Publication Date: 01 April 2014 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction Mark D. Naison Acknowledgments Wendy Johnson PART ONE Ch 1 Early Days Ch 2 Harlem and the Cotton Club Ch 3 Moving Up Ch 4 Show Biz Ch 5 Joining the Party PART TWO Ch 6 The Young Communist League Ch 7 The War Years Ch 8 Back Home Ch 9 La Lucha Continua PART THREE Ch 10 Starting Over Ch 11 Malimwu Ch 12 The Cotton Club Revisited Ch 13 Hawaii's Martin Luther King Day Ch 14 Paris - Texas and Home Again Time Line Howard E. Johnson's Curriculum Vitae Further reading IndexReviewsHoward Stretch Johnson's life story, ably edited by Wendy Johnson, is a compelling drama of race, dance, and radical politics of the 1930s to 1960s. No other book offers so much deep personal insight in these areas, and this book deserves as many readers as Claude McKay's Home to Harlem. -Paul Buhle, authorized biographer of C.L.R. James and retired Senior Lecturer, Brown University This is an excellent publication that provides an insider's view of everyday life and culture in Harlem during the period in which the contemporary black community is being formed. -Henry Louis Taylor Jr., University at Buffalo, SUNY Howard Stretch Johnson's life story, ably edited by Wendy Johnson, is a compelling drama of race, dance, and radical politics of the 1930s to 1960s. No other book offers so much deep personal insight in these areas, and this book deserves as many readers as Claude McKay's Home to Harlem. --Paul Buhle, authorized biographer of C.L.R. James and retired Senior Lecturer, Brown University This is an excellent publication that provides an insider's view of everyday life and culture in Harlem during the period in which the contemporary black community is being formed. --Henry Louis Taylor Jr., University at Buffalo, SUNY Although this book touches on issues of race and class endlessly discussed by the US left for decades, it is primarily the story of one man's experience living in a nation whose history is defined by those issues. that life explains more than a thousand debates. --Counterpunch Author InformationHoward Eugene Johnson (Author) Howard “Stretch” Eugene Johnson (1915–2000) was a former Communist Party leader, Cotton Club dancer, World War II veteran, and academic. His final years were spent as a professor of Black studies at SUNY New Paltz and as an ongoing activist in Hawai'i, where he helped achieve state recognition of Martin Luther King’s birthday as a bank holiday, marching until the age of 80 in Paris, France, and Harlem for causes he believed just. Mark D. Naison (Foreword By) Mark D. Naison is Professor of History and African American Studies at Fordham University, where he also directs the Bronx African American History Project. He is the author of three books, including Communists in Harlem During the Depression. Wendy Johnson (With) Wendy Johnson is the eldest of Stretch and Martha Sherman Johnson’s three daughters. She has worked as an activist, translator, and teacher of English. She lives in Paris. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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