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Freedom Dreams
  • Published: 27 June 2002
  • ISBN: 9780807009789
  • Imprint: RH US eBook Adult
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 264
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Freedom Dreams

The Black Radical Imagination

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Paperback
5 Oct 2022
EBook
27 June 2002
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The 20th-anniversary edition of Kelley’s influential history of 20th-century Black radicalism, with new reflections on current movements and their impact on the author, and a foreword by poet Aja Monet

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.
  • Published: 27 June 2002
  • ISBN: 9780807009789
  • Imprint: RH US eBook Adult
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 264
Categories:

About the author

Robin D. G. Kelley

Robin D. G. Kelley is the author of the award-winning biography Thelonious Monk; Race Rebels; Freedom Dreams; and numerous other acclaimed books on radical social movements, labour, music, Black intellectuals and the African diaspora. His essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, Hammer & Hope, Boston Review, and many other publications. A Guggenheim fellow and Freedom Scholar award recipient, Kelley is the Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in US History at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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