Freedom dreams : the Black radical imagination / Robin D.G. Kelley.
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 Su...
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| Language: | English |
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Boston :
Beacon Press,
©2002.
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| Summary: | 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.-- Back cover. |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 248 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-226) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0807009768 9780807009765 0807009776 9780807009772 |