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F.B. Eyes
 F.B. Eyes
How
J. Edgar Hoover’s
Ghostreaders
Framed
African American
Literature

WILLIAM J. MAXWELL

Princeton University Press

Princeton and Oxford
Copyright © 2015 by Princeton University Press
Published by Princeton University Press, 41 William Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08540
In the United Kingdom: Princeton University Press, 6 Oxford Street, Woodstock,
Oxfordshire OX20 1TW
press.princeton.edu
Jacket art © James Wechsler, Freedom of Information: Paul Robeson, 3.124, 2006. Acrylic
and India ink on paper, 28˝ x 20.˝ Jacket design by Pamela Schnitter.
All Rights Reserved
ISBN 978–­0-­691–­13020–­0
Library of Congress Control Number: 2014933936
British Library Cataloging-­in-­Publication Data is available
This book has been composed in Minion Pro and Ideal Sans
Printed on acid-­free paper. ∞
Printed in the United States of America
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
For Dad, the Third (1932–­2011), and Bix, the Fifth (2004–­)
The title of this book is inspired by Richard Wright’s poem “The FB Eye Blues.”
That old FB eye
Tied a bell to my bed stall
Said old FB eye
Tied a bell to my bed stall
Each time I love my baby, gover’ment knows it all.

Woke up this morning

FB eye under my bed
Said I woke up this morning
FB eye under my bed
Told me all I dreamed last night, every word I said.

Everywhere I look, Lord

I see FB eyes
Said every place I look, Lord
I find FB eyes
I’m getting sick and tired of gover’ment spies.

—­Richard Wright, “The FB Eye Blues” (1949)

Contents

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction 1

The FBI against and for African American Literature 1

The Files and the FOIA 7
Five Theses and the Way Forward 15

Part One/Thesis One: The Birth of the Bureau, Coupled with the
Birth of J. Edgar Hoover, Ensured the FBI’s Attention to African
American Literature 25
The Bureau before Hoover 29
Hoover before the Bureau 35
Bureau of Letters: Lit.-­Cop Federalism, the Hoover Raids, and the
Harlem Renaissance 42

Part Two/Thesis Two: The FBI’s Aggressive Filing and Long Study of
African American Writers Was Tightly Bound to the Agency’s
Successful Evolution under Hoover 59
Flatfoot Montage: The Genre of the Counterliterary FBI File 63
The Counterliterary State and the Charismatic Bureaucracy:
Trimming the First Amendment, Fencing the Harlem Renaissance 68
Persons to Racial Conditions: Literary G-­Men and FBI
Counterliterature from the New Deal to the Second World War 76
Afro-­Loyalty and Custodial Detention: Files of World War II 85
Total Literary Awareness: Files of the Cold War 94
COINTELPRO Minstrelsy: Files of Black Power 107

Part Three/Thesis Three: The FBI Is Perhaps the Most Dedicated and
Influential Forgotten Critic of African American Literature 127
Reading Like a CIA Agent 131
Reading Like an FBI Agent 141
x | Contents

Critics behind the Bureau Curtain: Meet Robert Adger Bowen

and William C. Sullivan 150
Ask Dr. Hoover: Model Citizen Criticism and the FBI’s
Interpretive Oracle 165

Part Four/Thesis Four: The FBI Helped to Define the

Twentieth-­Century Black Atlantic, Both Blocking and Forcing
Its Flows 175
The State in the Nation-­State; the State of the Transnational Turn 180
The State of Black Transnationalism; the State in the Black Atlantic 186
Checking Diasporan ID: Hostile Translation and the Passport Office 195
State-­Sponsored Transnationalism: The Stop Notice and the Travel
Bureau 205
Jazz Ambassadors versus Literary Escapees 212

Part Five/Thesis Five: Consciousness of FBI Ghostreading Fills

a Deep and Characteristic Vein of African American Literature 215
Reading Ghostreading in the Harlem Renaissance: New Negro
Journalists and Claude McKay 225
Invisible G-­Men En Route to the Cold War: George Schuyler,
Langston Hughes, and Ralph Ellison 232
Mysteries and Antifiles of Black Paris: Richard Wright, William
Gardner Smith, and Chester Himes 243
Black Arts Antifiles and the “Hoover Poem”: John A. Williams,
James Baldwin, Sam Greenlee, Melvin Van Peebles, Ishmael Reed,
Amiri Baraka, Nikki Giovanni, and Sonia Sanchez 259
Bureau Writing after Hoover: Dudley Randall, Ai, Audre Lorde,
Danzy Senna, and Gloria Naylor 269

Appendix: FOIA Requests for FBI Files on African American Authors

Active from 1919 to 1972 277

Notes 285
Works Cited 315
Index 343
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 Ethics - Summary Sheet
Winter 2024 - Academy

Prepared by: Lecturer Garcia

Date: August 12, 2025

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