Zamalin Black Utopia

The History of an Idea from Black Nationalism to Afrofuturism
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-231-54725-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch

Alex Zamalin offers a groundbreaking examination of African American visions of utopia and their counterutopian counterparts. Considering figures linked to racial separatism, postracialism, anticolonialism, Pan-Africanism, and Afrofuturism, he argues that the black utopian tradition continues to challenge American political thought and culture.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zamalin, Alex

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Utopia and Black American Thought
1. Martin Delany’s Experiment in Escape
2. Turn-of-the-Century Black Literary Utopianism
3. W. E. B. Du Bois’s World of Utopian Intimacy
4. George S. Schuyler, Irony, and Utopia
5. Richard Wright’s Black Power and Anticolonial Antiutopianism
6. Sun Ra and Cosmic Blackness
7. Samuel Delany and the Ambiguity of Utopia
8. Octavia Butler and the Politics of Utopian Transcendence
Conclusion: Black Utopia and the Contemporary Political Imagination
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Zamalin Alex:
Alex Zamalin(PhD, Political Science, CUNY Graduate Center) is Director of African American Studies and Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Detroit. He is the author of African American Political Thought and American Culture: The Nation’s Struggle for Racial Justice (Palgrave, 2015) and Struggle on Their Minds: The Political Thought of African American Resistance (Columbia, 2017) and the coeditor (with Jonathan Keller) of American Political Thought: An Alternative Reader (Routledge, 2017).Alex Zamalin is assistant professor of political science and director of the African American Studies Program at University of Detroit, Mercy. He is the author of African American Political Thought and American Culture: The Nation’s Struggle for Racial Justice (2015); Struggle on Their Minds: The Political Thought of African American Resistance (Columbia, 2017); and Antiracism: An Introduction (2019).