San Antonio College Library

"This book is about the first fourteen years of the current community-based mural movement. It is an attempt at its history and an effort to learn from the muralists' bid to restore art and its making to the common life"--Preface, page 7.

This academic study uses accounts from more than 60 African American writers--Countee Cullen, James Baldwin, Chester Himes et al.--to explain why they were more readily accepted socially in Paris than in America. Fabre (The Unfinished Quest of Richard Wright) shows that French/black American affinity started in pre-Civil War New Orleans (and not, as the title suggests, in Harlem), when illegitimate mulattos with inheritances from French slave-owners...