Print version: Schmidt, Tyler T. Desegregating desire : race and sexuality in Cold War American literature. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2013] viii, 279 pages ISBN 9781617037832
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction: The half-told histories of desegregation -- Ambivalent desires: Elizabeth Bishop, Zora Neale Hurston, and domestic desegregation -- War city: Gwendolyn Brooks, Edwin Denby, and the private poetics of public space -- White pervert: William Demby, Ann Petry, and the queer desires of racial belonging -- Damaged desires: Jo Sinclair, Carl Offord, and the traumas of integration -- Conclusion: Intimate failures.