Black Utopia: The History of an Idea from Black Nationalism to Afrofuturism

Title: Black Utopia: The History of an Idea from Black Nationalism to Afrofuturism Author: Alex Zamalin ISBN: 9780231187411 Publisher: Columbia University Press Published: 2019 Binding: Book Language: English Condition: New New from the publisher Philosophy 1434075 Publisher Description: Within the history of African American struggle against racist oppression that often verges on dystopia, a hidden tradition has depicted a transfigured world. Daring to speculate on a future beyond white supremacy, black utopian artists and thinkers offer powerful visions of ways of being that are built on radical concepts of justice and freedom. They imagine a new black citizen who would inhabit a world that soars above all existing notions of the possible. In Black Utopia, Alex Zamalin offers a groundbreaking examination of African American visions of social transformation and their counterutopian counterparts. Considering figures associated with racial