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| name         = If He Hollers Let Him Go 
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| caption      = First edition
| author       = [[Chester Himes]]
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| country      = United States
| language     = English
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| genre        = Literary fiction
| publisher    = [[Doubleday Doran]]
| release_date = 1945
| media_type   = Print
| pages        = 203
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| dewey        = 813/.54 21
| congress     = PS3515.I713 I3 2002
| oclc         = 51102812
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'''''If He Hollers Let Him Go''''' is the first novel by American writer [[Chester Himes]], published in 1945, about an [[African-American]] [[shipyard]] worker in [[Los Angeles]] during [[World War II]]. It earned him critical acclaim and was considered a "protest novel", in the tradition of [[Richard Wright (author)|Richard Wright]].<ref name="nytbook">Michael P. Jeffries, "The Rage in Harlem, and Beyond", review of Lawrence P. Jackson's ''Chester B. Himes: A Biography'', ''New York Times Book Review'', 27 August 2017</ref>

The book was adapted as a [[If He Hollers, Let Him Go! (film)|1968 film]], starring [[Raymond St. Jacques]], [[Dana Wynter]], [[Kevin McCarthy (actor)|Kevin McCarthy]], [[Barbara McNair]], and [[Arthur O'Connell]]. The screenplay differed markedly from the novel.  

==Plot and characters==
The story spans four days in the life of Robert "Bob" Jones, a newcomer to Los Angeles from [[Ohio]]. With some college education, he works as a crew leader in a naval shipyard. In this period, black workers are gaining opportunities in the defense industry as a result of executive orders of President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] during World War II. 

However, Jones cannot escape the pressures of [[racism]]. He believes he was promoted as a supervisor only to gain the cooperation of black workers in the war effort. He is forced to deal with [[anti-communist]] paranoia, resentment from whites on the floor working at the same jobs as "colored boys", and the baiting of black workers by some white females. 

His fears invade his dreams, aspirations, and passions. His dream of making something of himself in California is jeopardized as he reacts to the actions of the white people around him. He struggles to contain his urges to fight, kill, and rape as ways to overcome his resentment of white power arrayed against him. 

The main characters are the protagonist, Bob Jones, and two women: Madge Perkins, who is white; and Alice Harrison, his higher-class African-American girlfriend. Bob struggles for place in a white-dominated world and is filled with violent thoughts against white people, but does not act on them. 

In what is described as a "sexually charged novel",<ref name="nytbook"/> Madge makes a racial slur toward Bob. His calling her a "bitch" results in his demotion. He considers raping her as a way to get back at white America, seeing her as a symbol of "whiteness", but when she expresses sexual attraction to him, he rejects her. Alice tells Bob it is no use getting angry about the inequality that blacks must live with, and he has to learn to deal with it.

==Themes==
Themes addressed in the novel include [[racism]] suffered by black people, color differentiation among [[African Americans]] (Alice's light skin is associated with her higher class), employment discrimination against blacks, and class divisions among whites and blacks.{{citation needed|date=September 2017}} [[Communism]] is featured generously, as the Communist [[Labor unions in the United States|unionists]] ("agitators") are the only ones who talk about the issue of race in any way with which the protagonist agrees. There is some reference to [[jazz]].{{citation needed|date=September 2017}}

The book’s title plays on the third line of a popular children’s rhyme, which follows the second line historically included a racial epithet, “catch a n** by the toe”(in the US and other English-speaking countries like Australia). Mid-20th century variants in the US replaced the epithet with “tiger.” 

The novel is referred to in [[Frantz Fanon]]'s book, ''[[Black Skin White Masks]]'' (1952), first published in French, in the chapter titled "The Fact of Blackness".<ref>David Macey, [https://books.google.com/books?id=BdVRpzeA47YC&dq=Frantz+Fanon+%27If+He+Hollers+Let+Him+Go%27&pg=PA191 ''Frantz Fanon: A Biography''], Verso, 2012, p. 191.</ref>

==Reception==
Critics praised this first novel by Himes, classifying it in the "protest novel" tradition established by  [[Richard Wright (author)|Richard Wright]].<ref name="nytbook"/> 

==References==
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[[Category:1945 American novels]]
[[Category:Novels by Chester Himes]]
[[Category:African-American novels]]
[[Category:Novels set in Los Angeles]]
[[Category:Novels about race and ethnicity]]
[[Category:American novels adapted into films]]
[[Category:Novels set during World War II]]
[[Category:Doubleday, Doran books]]
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