Ragged Revolutionaries

"Mills's focus on the lumpenproletariat is timely, as it intersects with and helps to inform scholarship on a number of emergent topics in American cultural studies. The recuperation of unpublished manuscripts by Ellison and Walker—used to form a significant part of the author's argument—is also a significant contribution in and of itself."—Chris Vials, author of Haunted by Hitler: Liberals, the Left, and the Fight against Fascism in the United States

"Mills writes with a rare combination of force and economy. A reader of Ragged Revolutionaries never loses the thread of the argument. Mills's attention to the current scholarly discourse is matched by his careful work in the literary archives and his original readings of Wright, Ellison, and Walker. This is, in many ways, model scholarship."—Adam Bradley, author of Ralph Ellison in Progress

"Mills' book shines brightly . . . The improvisation of Wright, Ellison and Walker has been supplemented brilliantly by the improvisation of Mills. His intervention is much needed. In all, this is the finest sort of literary scholarship for our times."—Against the Current

"Throughout, Mills's project reminds readers that marginalized groups possess immense resources for cultural creativity, political agency, and visionary self-invention."—American Literature