Barbara Clare Foley, Distinguished Professor of English at Rutgers University-Newark, is an author whose work is helpful in gaining a better understanding of creating a culture sensitive to issues of race, class and gender in the effort to build an egalitarian society and she also explores the radical origins of the Harlem Renaissance.
Barbara Foley (born 1948), Distinguished Professor of English at Rutgers University-Newark, focuses her research and teaching on U.S. literary radicalism, African American literature, and Marxist criticism. that is a must read for anyone interested in gaining a better understanding of the difficult project of creating a radical culture sensitive to issues of race, class and gender in the effort to build an egalitarian society." Foley's third book, Spectres of 1919: Class and Nation in the Making of the New Negro (Illinois, 2003), explores the radical origins of the Harlem Renaissance. 
