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Robin D. G. Kelley's book Hammer and Hoe explores the history of communism in the U.S. state of Alabama. ███

Intro topic · Author D. G. Kelley on communism in Alabama

Kelley's focus · How the Communist Party engaged with African-American workers

Other scholars' focus · Reconciling "Popular Front" communism and liberalism

Kelley's position · Popular Front had a negative effect on African-American organizing

Expect the rest of the passage to support this position

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Provide context · Earlier "Third Period" communist movement inspired African-American organizers

Author concedes that the movement's rhetoric wasn't taken seriously but that on the whole, the movement motivated African-American organizers

Example · Of Third Period's appeal to African-American organizers

Third Period movement was associated with efforts to combat lynch law

Support Kelley's position · Shift to Popular Front movement decreased African-American involvement in communist organizing

Popular Front was less involved in issues of concern to African Americans

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Clarify Kelley's position · Other factors also responsible for decline of African-American involvement

Competing political factions, changes to industry and economy

Passage Style

Single position

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Main point

In a Single Position passage, the main point should be the view that the author advocates/supports, or the view author focuses on, if she doesn’t advocate/support a view. Here, the author focuses on presenting Kelley’s view in the book Hammer and Hoe. So let’s look for an answer that accurately captures the idea that Kelley makes an argument about the relationship between communism and African-Americans in his book.

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The word “fail” in (A) suggests some kind of negative attitude toward Kelley’s book. But the author shows no hint of criticism of Kelley’s book.

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The author’s MP is simply to present Kelley’s argument in Hammer and Hoe. To pick (B), we’d have to think that the author wants to make a point about what’s required or not required to cause political change. But the author doesn’t express an opinion about this.

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The author doesn’t suggest that Hammer and Hoe is valuable for anything; he simply reports on the argument made in Hammer and Hoe.

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We don’t know the author’s opinion about what constitutes success of the Communist Party at organizing African-American workers. The author merely reports what Kelley argues in the book Hammer and Hoe; we don’t know the author’s own opinion.

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This is the best answer. This is the only answer that captures author’s focus on presenting Kelley’s argument in Hammer and Hoe. That argument relates to the relationship between the Communist Party and African-American workers in the 1930s and 1940s. The phrase “new insights” is appropriate because Kelley’s argument departs from the views of most scholarship.

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