Exploring the interface between the cultural poliics of the Black Power and Black Arts movements and the production of postwar African American popular culture, Amy Ongiri shows how the reliance of Black politics on an oppositional image of African Americans was the formative mo…
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New thoughts on the Black arts movement
During the 1960s and 1970s, a cadre of poets, playwrights, visual artists, musicians, and other visionaries came together to create a renaissance in African American literature and art, known as the Black Arts Movement. This book brings together 17 essays that uncover the rich c…
New thoughts on the Black arts movement
During the 1960s and 1970s, a cadre of poets, playwrights, visual artists, musicians, and other visionaries came together to create a renaissance in African American literature and art. This charged chapter in the history of African American culture - which came to be known as t…