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Freedom dreams : the Black radical imagination / Robin D.G. Kelley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kelley, Robin D. G., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Black power--United States--History.
- Black power.
- African Americans--Civil rights.
- African Americans.
- Civil rights movements--United States--History.
- Civil rights movements.
- African American arts.
- Radicalism--United States--History.
- Radicalism.
- History.
- United States--Race relations--History.
- United States.
- Race relations.
- African diaspora.
- Black or African American--history.
- Civil Rights--history.
- Race Relation--history.
- Medical Subjects:
- Black or African American--history.
- Civil Rights--history.
- Race Relation--history.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 248 pages.)
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Beacon Press, [2002]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- ." . . [a] bold and provocative celebration of the black radical imagination in the 20th century."--The New York Times Book Review Kelley unearths freedom dreams in this exciting history of renegade intellectuals and artists of the African diaspora in the twentieth century.Focusing on the visions of activists from C. L. R. James to Aime Cesaire and Malcolm X, Kelley writes of the hope that Communism offered, the mindscapes of Surrealism, the transformative potential of radical feminism, and of the four-hundred-year-old dream of reparations for slavery and Jim Crow. From "the preeminent historian of black popular culture" (Cornel West), an inspiring work on the power of imagination to transform society. "Based on Kelley"s belief that to make a better world we must first imagine it, this brilliantly conceived and written book recounts the accomplishments of black activists and thinkers over the past century who have been committedto remaking the world." --Library Journal Robin D. G.Kelley is professor of history and Africana studies at New York University and author of Hammer and Hoe, Race Rebels, and Yo" Mama"s Disfunktional! (Beacon / 0941-5 / $14.00 pb). He lives in New York City.
- Contents:
- When history sleeps : a beginning
- Dreams of the new land
- The Negro question : red dreams of Black liberation
- Roaring from the east : third world dreaming
- A day of reckoning : dreams of restitution
- This battlefield called life : Black feminist dreams
- Keeping it (sur)real : dreams of the marvelous
- When history awakes : a new beginning.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-226) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Kelley, Robin D.G. Freedom dreams.
- ISBN:
- 9780807009789
- 0807009784
- Publisher Number:
- 99984792035
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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