000			03559cam a2200385 i 4500
001			on1110009927
003			OCoLC
005			20240726105122.0
008			190724s2019 nyua ob 001 0 eng c
040			_aNT _beng _erda _epn _cNT _dEBLCP _dCUV _dJSTOR _dYDX _dDEGRU _dORZ _dOCLCQ _dRECBK _dWAU _dOCLCQ _dMM9 _dLUN _dUX1 _dCGN _dNJT _dOCLCO _dSFB _dOCLCO _dFAU _dOCL _dOCLCQ
020			_a9780231547253 _q((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)
042			_apcc
050	0	4	_aE185 _b.B533 2019
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aZamalin, Alex, _d1986- _e1
245	1	0	_aBlack utopia : _bthe history of an idea from black nationalism to Afrofuturism / _cAlex Zamalin.
260			_aNew York : _bColumbia University Press, _c(c)2019.
300			_a1 online resource (182 pages) : _billustrations
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
347			_adata file _2rda
504			_a2
520	0		_a"Within 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"-- _cProvided by publisher
505	0	0	_aIntroduction : utopia and black American thought -- _tMartin Delany's experiment in escape -- _tTurn-of-the-century black literary utopianism -- _tW.E.B. Du Bois's world of utopian intimacy -- _tGeorge S. Schuyler, irony, and utopia -- _tRichard Wright's black power and anticolonial antiutopianism -- _tSun Ra and cosmic blackness -- _tSamuel Delany and the ambiguity of utopia -- _tOctavia Butler and the politics of utopian transcendence -- _tConclusion : black utopia and the contemporary political imagination.
530			_a2 _ub
650		0	_aAfrican Americans _xPolitics and government.
650		0	_aAfrican Americans _xIntellectual life.
650		0	_aUtopias.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=2088000&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
942			_cOB _D _eEB _hE _m2019 _QOL _R _x _8NFIC _2LOC
994			_a92 _bNT
999			_c89648 _d89648
902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell