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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “james smethurst”
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  • The Black Arts Movement

    Literary Nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s

    by James Smethurst ...
    Series series The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
    Emerging from a matrix of Old Left, black nationalist, and bohemian ideologies and institutions, African American artists and intellectuals in the 1960s coalesced to form the Black Arts Movement, the cultural wing of the Black Power Movement. In this comprehensive analysis, James Smethurst examines the formation of the Black Arts Movement and demonstrates how it deeply influenced the production ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Behold the Land

    The Black Arts Movement in the South

    by James Smethurst ...
    Series series The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
    In the mid-1960s, African American artists and intellectuals formed the Black Arts movement in tandem with the Black Power movement, with creative luminaries like Amiri Baraka, Gwendolyn Brooks, Toni Cade Bambara, and Gil Scott-Heron among their number. In this follow-up to his award-winning history of the movement nationally, James Smethurst investigates the origins, development, maturation, and ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The African American Roots of Modernism

    From Reconstruction to the Harlem Renaissance

    by James Smethurst ...
    Series series The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
    The period between 1880 and 1918, at the end of which Jim Crow was firmly established and the Great Migration of African Americans was well under way, was not the nadir for black culture, James Smethurst reveals, but instead a time of profound response from African American intellectuals. The African American Roots of Modernism explores how the Jim Crow system triggered significant artistic and ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Left of the Color Line

    Race, Radicalism, and Twentieth-Century Literature of the United States

    Edited by Bill V. Mullen, James Smethurst ...
    Series series The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
    This collection of fifteen new essays explores the impact of the organized Left and Leftist theory on American literature and culture from the 1920s to the present. In particular, the contributors explore the participation of writers and intellectuals on the Left in the development of African American, Chicano/Chicana, and Asian American literature and culture. By placing the Left at the center of ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Brick City Vanguard

    Amiri Baraka, Black Music, Black Modernity

    by James Smethurst ...
    Series series African American Intellectual History
    Amiri Baraka is unquestionably the most recognized leader of the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s, and one of the key literary and cultural figures of the postwar United States. While Baraka's political and aesthetic stances changed considerably over the course of his career, Brick City Vanguard demonstrates the continuity in his thinking about the meaning of black music in the material, ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

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    Liberator Magazine and Black Activism in the 1960s

    by Christopher M. Tinson ...
    The rise of black radicalism in the 1960s was a result of both the successes and the failures of the civil rights movement. The movement’s victories were inspirational, but its failures to bring about structural political and economic change pushed many to look elsewhere for new strategies. During this era of intellectual ferment, the writers, editors, and activists behind the monthly magazine ... Read more

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  • In Search of the Black Fantastic

    Politics and Popular Culture in the Post-Civil Rights Era

    by Richard Iton ...
    Series series Transgressing Boundaries: Studies in Black Politics and Black Communities
    Prior to the 1960s, when African Americans had little access to formal political power, black popular culture was commonly seen as a means of forging community and effecting political change. But as Richard Iton shows in this provocative and insightful volume, despite the changes brought about by the civil rights movement, and contrary to the wishes of those committed to narrower conceptions of ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

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    An antidote to bigotry and a "perfect primer for readers seeking factual, realistic portrayals of the rural and working-class experience" ( Los Angeles Times).In 2016, headlines declared Appalachia ground zero for America's "forgotten tribe" of white working-class voters. Journalists flocked to the region to extract sympathetic profiles of families devastated by poverty, abandoned by establishment ... Read more

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  • Brother West

    Living and Loving Out Loud, A Memoir

    by Cornel West ...
    New York Times best-selling author Cornel West is one of America’s most provocative and admired public intellectuals. Whether in the classroom, the streets, the prisons, or the church, Dr. West’s penetrating brilliance has been a bright beacon shining through the darkness for decades.Yet, as he points out in this new memoir, "I’ve never taken the time to focus on the inner dynamics of the dark ... Read more

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  • A More Beautiful and Terrible History

    The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History

    by Jeanne Theoharis ...
    This “bracing corrective to national mythology” around the American civil rights movement “shows us how little we remember, and how much more there is to understand” (New York Times).“Theoharis’s view of history is expansive” as it reveals the diverse, unsung heroes of the movement and criticizes the oversimplification of complex figures like Martin Luther King, Jr. (O Magazine).The civil rights ... Read more

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    Searching for Tupac Shakur

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  • Freedom Dreams

    The Black Radical Imagination

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    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 ... Read more

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