Black utopia : the history of an idea from black nationalism to Afrofuturism /

"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Zamalin, Alex, 1986- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2019]
Subjects:
African Americans > Politics and government.
African Americans > Intellectual life.
Utopias.
Electronic books.
Utopias
Noirs américains > Politique et gouvernement.
Noirs américains > Vie intellectuelle.
Utopies.
Livres numériques.
e-books.
HISTORY > African American.
Electronic books
African Americans > Intellectual life
African Americans > Politics and government
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : utopia and black American thought
  • Martin Delany's experiment in escape
  • Turn-of-the-century black literary utopianism
  • W.E.B. Du Bois's world of utopian intimacy
  • George S. Schuyler, irony, and utopia
  • Richard Wright's black power and anticolonial antiutopianism
  • Sun Ra and cosmic blackness
  • Samuel Delany and the ambiguity of utopia
  • Octavia Butler and the politics of utopian transcendence
  • Conclusion : black utopia and the contemporary political imagination.

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