Freedom Dreams / the Black Radical Imagination
Type
Book
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Category
Publication Year
2002
Publisher
Subject
African-American History
Description
African-American Studies/History Kelley unearths freedom dreams in this exciting history of renegade intellectuals and artists of the African diaspora in the twentieth century. Focusin on the visions of activists from CLR James to Aime Cesaire and Malcolm X, he 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. - Publisher
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