Tag: Sylvia Pankhurst

Black and white photograph of a dock with a tall ship with cargo being loaded or unloaded beside it, on the dock. Brick buildings flank the dock.

“A Black Man Replies”: Claude McKay’s Challenge to the British Left

My article on Jamaican poet Claude McKay’s critique of the racial politics of mainstream British socialism has just been published in the open access Lateral, journal of the Cultural Studies…

Word cloud of dissertation, prominent words include "Spain, women, Spanish, black, war, Hughes, scrapbook, McKay, university, press, modernism, poem, letter."

Networks of Art & Activism

As I apply for academic jobs, I’ve had to revisit my dissertation abstract. Apparently, an abstract should be of something already written–which my book project is not–so I’ve been…