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The Black utopians : searching for paradise and the Promised Land in America / Aaron Robertson.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Robertson, Aaron, 1994- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cleage, Albert B., Jr., 1911-2000.
- Cleage, Albert B.
- Dowdell, Glanton.
- Robertson, Aaron, 1994-.
- Robertson, Aaron.
- African Americans--Race identity--History.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Religion.
- African American neighborhoods--United States--History.
- African American neighborhoods.
- Black nationalism--United States--History.
- Black nationalism.
- African Americans--Political activity--Michigan--Detroit--History--20th century.
- Detroit (Mich.)--Race relations--History--20th century.
- Detroit (Mich.).
- United States--Race relations--History.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- x, 382 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Searching for paradise and the Promised Land in America
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024.
- Summary:
- "A memoiristic history of Black utopian movements in the United States"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The Furnace and the Forge. Promise land
- A church and a one-room school
- Letter II: Genesis
- The promised land that wasn't
- Black bottom
- No one starved in California
- The kingdoms of God
- Southeast corner of my cell
- Letter III: bad spirit multiplying
- Imperium in imperio
- Letter IV: Just a prisoner
- A strategy of chaos
- 'You were beautiful when your apparition formed'
- A new faith
- Counter-Culture. New Afrika
- Letter V: Connecting the dots
- Politisk Asyl at Glanton Dowdell!
- Letter VI: From Eight Mile to the Infinte South
- The valley of dry bones
- Letter VII: The art shop
- Time rituals
- Formation
- Messiahs
- Letter VIII: Free thoughts
- The science of becoming what you already are
- Black Kibbutzniks
- The Land of Corn & Wine. Letter IX: Prodigal son
- The prison letters of Dorian Robertson are missing
- An armful of beautiful roses
- A place flowing with milk and honey
- The world system
- A model community
- Shrines
- The Cumberland
- Rest
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Hagen fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9780374604981
- 0374604983
- OCLC:
- 1417470158
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