Freedom dreams

By Robin D.G. Kelley

Subjects: Intellectual life, United States -- Race relations -- History., African americans, history, African American arts., Radicalism, African Americans, Civil rights movements, united states, Droits, Burgerrechten, Ethnic Studies, Civil rights movements, Reparations, United states, history, Race Relation, Histoire, African diaspora, Radicalism -- United States -- History., African diaspora., Africains, African american art, Feminism, Mouvements des droits de l'homme, Afro-amerikaner, Black power, Civil Rights, Africains à l'étranger, SOCIAL SCIENCE, Black Power, Relations raciales, Bürgerrecht, Radicalisme, Black power -- United States -- History., Civil rights, Arts noirs américains, History, Civil rights movements -- United States -- History., United states, race relations, Noirs américains, Race relations, African American Studies, African Americans -- Civil rights., African American arts

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.