Put Some Red on It: Maoist Brooding and Communist Laughter.

The article explores how literary, artistic, and political practices intersect with Maoist and Black radical thoughts. Topics include the author's description of a photo of a 1959 meeting in China between politician Mao Tse-tung and sociologist W. E. B. Du Bois, an argument in Eduardo Cadava and Sara Nadal-Melsió's book "Politically Red" about reading as a communist praxis, and author Amiri Baraka's theorization of the Blues Aesthetic in African American and Pan-African cultural history.