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Black Utopia - The History of an Idea from Black Nationalism to Afrofuturism (Paperback)
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Black Utopia - The History of an Idea from Black Nationalism to Afrofuturism (Paperback)
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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 separatism, postracialism, anticolonialism,
Pan-Africanism, and Afrofuturism, he argues that the black utopian
tradition continues to challenge American political thought and
culture. Black Utopia spans black nationalist visions of an ideal
Africa, the fiction of W. E. B. Du Bois, and Sun Ra's cosmic
mythology of alien abduction. Zamalin casts Samuel R. Delany and
Octavia E. Butler as political theorists and reflects on the
antiutopian challenges of George S. Schuyler and Richard Wright.
Their thought proves that utopianism, rather than being politically
immature or dangerous, can invigorate political imagination. Both
an inspiring intellectual history and a critique of present power
relations, this book suggests that, with democracy under siege
across the globe, the black utopian tradition may be our best hope
for combating injustice.
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