Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination by Robin D.G. Kelley

By Robin D.G. Kelley

Kelley reveals freedom desires during this fascinating historical past of renegade intellectuals and artists of the African diaspora within the 20th century. concentrating on the visions of activists from C. L. R. James to Aime Cesaire and Malcolm X, Kelley writes of the desire that Communism provided, the mindscapes of Surrealism, the transformative power of radical feminism, and of the four-hundred-year-old dream of reparations for slavery and Jim Crow. From'the preeminent historian of black pop culture' (Cornel West), an inspiring paintings at the energy of mind's eye to rework society.

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