Freedom dreams
Subtitle: the Black radical imagination
By: Robin D.G. Kelley.
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
Subjects: Black power -- United States -- History.; African Americans -- Civil rights.; Civil rights movements -- United States -- History.; African American arts.; Radicalism -- United States -- History.; African diaspora.; United States -- Race relations -- History.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-226) and index.
Table of contents: title: When history sleeps : a beginning; title: Dreams of the new land; title: The Negro question : red dreams of Black liberation; title: Roaring from the east : third world dreaming; title: A day of reckoning : dreams of restitution; title: This battlefield called life : Black feminist dreams; title: Keeping it (sur)real : dreams of the marvelous; title: When history awakes : a new beginning.