Rereading 1930s culture / Bill Mullen and Sherry Lee Linkon -- 1930s left in U.S. literature reconsidered / Alan M. Wald -- Poetry chorus : dialogic politics in 1930s poetry / Cary Nelson -- Left out : three Italian-American writers of the 1930s / Fred L. Gardaphe -- African-American writing of the 1930s : a prologue / James A. Miller -- Proletarian as new negro : Mike Gold's Harlem renaissance / William J. Maxwell -- Writing across the color line : white women writers and the "negro question" in the Gastonia novels / Suzanne Sowinska -- Literature of resistance : the intersection of feminism and the communist left in Meridel Le Sueur and Tillie Olsen / Constance Coiner -- Tracing the fault line of the radical female subject : Grace Lumpkin's The Wedding / Jessica Kimball Printz -- Margaret Bourke-White's red coat ; or, slumming in the thirties / Paula Rabinowitz -- Politics meet popular entertainment in the workers' theater of the 1930s / Colette A. Hyman -- Depression culture : the dream of mobility / Morris Dickstein -- Popular culture and crisis : King Kong meets Edmund Wilson / Lawrence F. Hanley -- Political incorrectness : the 1930s legacy for literary studies / James D. Bloom.