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  • The Black Arts Movement

    The Black Arts Movement

    by James Smethurst

    Emerging from a matrix of Old Left, black nationalist, and bohemian ideologies and institutions, African American artists and intellectuals in the 1960s coalesced to form the Black Arts Movement, the cultural wing of the Black Power Movement. In this comprehensive analysis, James Smethurst examines ... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2005
  • The African American Roots of Modernism: From Reconstruction to the Harlem Renaissance

    The African American Roots of Modernism: From Reconstruction to the Harlem Renaissance

    by James Smethurst

    The period between 1880 and 1918, at the end of which Jim Crow was firmly established and the Great Migration of African Americans was well under way, was not the nadir for black culture, James Smethurst reveals, but instead a time of profound response from African American intellectuals. The Africa... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2011
  • Behold the Land: The Black Arts Movement in the South (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)

    Behold the Land: The Black Arts Movement in the South (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)

    by James Smethurst

    In the mid-1960s, African American artists and intellectuals formed the Black Arts movement in tandem with the Black Power movement, with creative luminaries like Amiri Baraka, Gwendolyn Brooks, Toni Cade Bambara, and Gil Scott-Heron among their number. In this follow-up to his award-winning history... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2021
  • Left of the Color Line

    Left of the Color Line

    by James Smethurst • Bill V. Mullen

    This collection of fifteen new essays explores the impact of the organized Left and Leftist theory on American literature and culture from the 1920s to the present. In particular, the contributors explore the participation of writers and intellectuals on the Left in the development of African Americ... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2003
  • New Thoughts On The Black Arts Movement

    New Thoughts On The Black Arts Movement

    by Emily Bernard • James Smethurst • Lee Bernstein • Alondra Nelson • Margo Natalie Crawford • Kellie Jones • Erina Duganne • Lisa Gail Collins • Cherise Pollard • Cherise Smith • Wendy Walters • Michelle Joan Wilkinson • Lorrie Smith • Houston Baker • Adam Gussow • Rod Hernandez • Mary Ellen Lennon

    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 the Black Arts Movement—... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2006
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