num_pages: 488
description: 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 and reception of literature and art in the United States through its negotiations of the ideological climate of the Cold War, decolonization, and the civil rights movement.
language: English
title: The Black Arts Movement: Literary Nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s
titlecomplete: The Black Arts Movement: Literary Nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)
genres: Nonfiction, African American, History, Literary Criticism
ratings_count: 33
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: James A. Rawley Prize
publisher: The University of North Carolina Press