Building the Black Arts movement : Hoyt Fuller and the cultural politics of the 1960s / Jonathan Fenderson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fenderson, Jonathan, 1980- author.

Series:

New Black studies series

The new Black studies series

Standardized Title:

Journey toward a black aesthetic

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fuller, Hoyt, 1923-1981.

Fuller, Hoyt.

Black Arts movement.

Black nationalism--United States--History--20th century.

Black nationalism.

United States.

History.

African American arts--20th century.

African American arts.

African Americans--Intellectual life--20th century.

African Americans.

African Americans--Intellectual life.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 255 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

[Urbana, Illinois] : University of Illinois Press, [2019]

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Designing the future : Black in a Negro company

A local construction site : OBAC, Chicago, and the black aesthetic

Expansion plans : asymmetries of pan-African power

Scaling back : closure, crisis, and counterrevolutionary times

Abandoning the past : effacing history and confronting silence

Coda maintenance, reconstruction, and demolition : contests for black creative control.

Notes:

Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2011, titled "Journey toward a black aesthetic" : Hoyt Fuller, the Black Arts Movement & the black intellectual community.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780252042430

0252042433

9780252084225

0252084225

OCLC:

1057377091