Dreaming of the Present - Time, Aesthetics, and the Black Cooperative Movement (Hardcover)

In their darkest hours over the course of the twentieth century, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ella Baker, George Schuyler, and Fannie Lou Hamer gathered hundreds across the United States and beyond to build vast, now forgotten, networks of mutual aid: farms, shops, schools, banks, daycares, homes, health clinics, and burial grounds. They called these spaces "cooperatives," local challenges to global capital, where people pooled all they had to meet all their needs. By reading their activism as an artistic practice, Irvin J. Hunt argues that their overarching need was to free their movement from the logic of progress. Steeped in the wonders of this movement's material afterlife, Hunt extrapolates three non-progressive forms of movement time: a continual beginning, a deliberate falling apart, and a kind of all-at-once simultaneity. These temporalities describe how these leaders, along with their circles, maneuvered the law, reappropriated property, expressed the pleasures of resistance, challenged the value of longevity, built autonomous communities, and fundamentally reimagined what a movement can be. Hunt offers both an original account of Black mutual aid and, in a world of diminishing of futures, a moving meditation on the possibilities of the present.

General

Imprint:	The University of North Carolina Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	April 2022
Authors:	Irvin J. Hunt
Dimensions:	235 x 155mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	272
ISBN-13:	978-1-4696-6792-8
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Black studies Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political activism > Revolutions & coups Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Management of specific areas > Personnel & human resources management
LSN:	1-4696-6792-4
Barcode:	9781469667928

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