Ragged Revolutionaries

Introduction: Communists, writers, and other outsiders -- The ragged proletariat: itineraries for a transient concept -- Richard Wright and the lumpenproletarian desire for revolution -- From Oklahoma City to Tuskegee, from Harlem to Dayton: the sites, levels, and travels of Ralph Ellison's Marxism -- Prostitutes, delinquents, and folk heroes: Margaret Walker's lumpenproletariat -- Conclusion: afterlives of the Depression lumpenproletariat.