Black Utopia : The History of an Idea from Black Nationalism to Afrofuturism /

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Within the history of African American struggle against racist oppression that often verges on dystopia, a hidden tradition has depicted a transfigured world. Daring to speculate on a future beyond white supremacy, black utopian artists and thinkers offer powerful visions of ways of being that are b...

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Autor principal: Zamalin, Alex (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2019]
Temas:
African Americans > Intellectual life.
African Americans > Politics and government.
Utopias.
PHILOSOPHY / Political.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • Introduction: Utopia and Black American Thought
  • 1. Martin Delany's Experiment in Escape
  • 2. Turn- of- the- Century Black Literary Utopianism
  • 3. W. E. B. Du Bois's World of Utopian Intimacy
  • 4. George S. Schuyler, Irony, and Utopia
  • 5. Richard Wright's Black Power and Anticolonial Antiutopianism
  • 6. Sun Ra and Cosmic Blackness
  • 7. Samuel Delany and the Ambiguity of Utopia
  • 8. Octavia Butler and the Politics of Utopian Transcendence
  • Conclusion: Black Utopia and the Contemporary Political Imagination
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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