Barbara Clare Foley is a musician 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. The author of six books and over seventy scholarly articles, review essays, and book chapters, she has published on literary theory, academic politics, US proletarian literature, the Harlem Renaissance, and the writers Ralph Ellison and Jean Toomer. 
