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and its ready assumption of roles as diverse as community center

and the making of grim institutions whose power would only grow across the century

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tradition-based way of thinking

Takanashi shows how novelists employed metaphors of transport to constantly reassess what readers could and could not access

Death Blow to Jim Crow Edmund Hunt and its ready assumption ofDuring the Great Depression, black intellectuals, labor organizers, and artists formed the National Negro Congress (NNC) to demand a "second emancipation" in America. Over the next decade, the NNC and its offshoot, the Southern Negro Youth Congress, sought to coordinate and catalyze local antiracist activism into a national movement to undermine the Jim Crow system of racial and economic exploitation. In this pioneering study, Erik S. Gellman shows