The Other Blacklist: The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s

<h4>Kate Baldwin is a writer and Associate Professor of American Studies and Rhetoric at Northwestern University, where she is Director of the Program in American Studies.  She is the author of <a href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/Beyond-the-Color-Line-and-the-Iron-Curtain/?viewby=title&amp;sort">Beyond the Color Line and the Iron Curtain: Reading Encounters between Black and Red</a>, (Duke UP 2002).   Her writing also has appeared in Huffington Post, Truth-Out, and Global Post. Her book The Racial Imaginary of the Cold War Kitchen: from Sokol’niki Park to Chicago’s South Side is forthcoming from Dartmouth University Press.</h4>

Kate Baldwin

Black Left, Black List

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Kate Baldwin is a writer and Associate Professor of American Studies and Rhetoric at Northwestern University, where she is Director of the Program in American Studies.  She is the author of <a href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/Beyond-the-Color-Line-and-the-Iron-Curtain/?viewby=title&amp;sort">Beyond the Color Line and the Iron Curtain: Reading Encounters between Black and Red</a>, (Duke UP 2002).   Her writing also has appeared in Huffington Post, Truth-Out, and Global Post. Her book The Racial Imaginary of the Cold War Kitchen: from Sokol’niki Park to Chicago’s South Side is forthcoming from Dartmouth University Press.