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100	1		_aZamalin, Alex, _d1986- _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aBlack utopia : _bthe history of an idea from Black nationalism to Afrofuturism / _cAlex Zamalin.
264		1	_aNew York : _bColumbia University Press, _c[2019] _c2019
300			_a182 pages : _billustrations (black and white) ; _c22 cm
336			_atext _2rdacontent
336			_astill image _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
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504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Utopia and Black American Thought1. Martin Delany's Experiment in Escape2. Turn-of-the-Century Black Literary Utopianism3. W. E. B. Du Bois's World of Utopian Intimacy4. George S. Schuyler, Irony, and Utopia5. Richard Wright's Black Power and Anticolonial Antiutopianism6. Sun Ra and Cosmic Blackness7. Samuel Delany and the Ambiguity of Utopia8. Octavia Butler and the Politics of Utopian TranscendenceConclusion: Black Utopia and the Contemporary Political ImaginationNotesBibliographyIndex
520	8		_aAlex Zamalin offers a groundbreaking examination of African American visions of utopia and their counterutopian counterparts. Considering figures linked to racial separatism, postracialism, anticolonialism, Pan-Africanism, and Afrofuturism, he argues that the black utopian tradition continues to challenge American political thought and culture. _bWithin 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.
650		0	_aBlack nationalism _xHistory.
650		0	_aUtopias _xHistory.
650		7	_aPolitics and Government. _2ukslc
650		7	_aPolitics & government _2thema
650		7	_aEthnic minorities & multicultural studies _2thema
650		7	_aNationalism _2thema _915593
650		7	_aUnited States of America, USA _2thema
650		7	_aHistory of the Americas _2thema
650		7	_aLiterature: history & criticism _2thema
650		7	_aEthnic studies _2thema
650		7	_aPolitical science & theory _2thema
650		7	_aSocial & cultural history _2thema
650		7	_aSocial & political philosophy _2thema
650		7	_aRelating to African American people _2thema
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