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Building the Black Arts movement : Hoyt Fuller and the cultural politics of the 1960s /
"The project explores the history of the Black Arts Movement through the experience of activist and organizer, Hoyt W. Fuller (1923-1981). In the first book to document and analyze Fuller's profound influence on the movement, Fenderson attends to the paradox between Fuller's central r...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Urbana, Illinois] :
University of Illinois Press,
[2019]
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| Colección: | The new Black studies series
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "The project explores the history of the Black Arts Movement through the experience of activist and organizer, Hoyt W. Fuller (1923-1981). In the first book to document and analyze Fuller's profound influence on the movement, Fenderson attends to the paradox between Fuller's central role in the Movement and his marginal place in African-American historiography. The project rethinking both the Black Arts Movement and the broader Black cultural politics of the 1960s.Though focused on Fuller, the project is not simply a biographer; it is a series of historical vignettes covering different aspects of Fuller's cultural activism. As it chronicles Fuller's life, the book also address pivotal events and formative moments that grant insight into the ways the Black Arts Movement took shape at the local level; the ways artists shaped the Movement; how race, class, gender, sexuality, and corporate interests impacted the Movement; and, especially, how recovering Hoyt Fuller's work fundamentally alters our knowledge of the Black Arts Movement"-- |
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| Notas: | Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2011, titled "Journey toward a black aesthetic" : Hoyt Fuller, the Black Arts Movement and the black intellectual community. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-244) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780252051272 0252051270 |