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Speculative Light brings together scholars, critics, and artists who analyze the stylistic and historical import of James Baldwin’s and Beauford Delaney’s works, showing how their lifelong friendship fundamentally shaped their ideas about art and life.

Speculative Light brings together scholars, critics, and artists who analyze the stylistic and historical import of James Baldwin’s and Beauford Delaney’s works, showing how their lifelong friendship fundamentally shaped their ideas about art and life.

Topics highlight worker responses during the postwar boom era and include a comparative analysis of the social democracy of the United States and that of West Germany; inflation as the underside of liberal governance; the "Fordist" trap for Italian women; humanizing the workplace during the Sixties Revolution; and the many sides of the Catholic labor movement. Contributors. Stefan Berger, Eloisa Betti, Patrick Dixon, Andrew Elrod, Leon Fink, Jan-Arend de Graaf, Gerd-Rainer Horn, Nelson Lichtenstein, Stefan Mueller