Of vagabonds and fellow travelers: African diaspora literary culture and the cultural Cold War

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Notes

¹ In 1962, Senator Jacob K. Javits of New York called for more federal funding for cultural groups as part of what he named a “cultural cold war” with the Soviet Union and Communist China (“Javits Sees U.S. Lag”). The foundational scholarly overview of the cultural Cold War was the book published in the US under that title by Frances Stonor Saunders, but Saunders mostly neglects African diaspora writers and artists, making Tolliver’s book a very welcome addition to the scholarship on literature and the Cold War.

² See Murphy and Sherman, “Nikole Hannah-Jones considering legal action.”

³ La Guma, Culture and Liberation.