Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-217) and index.
Contents
Introduction : webs of affiliation -- Flying Africans in spaceships -- Trapping entanglements -- Prophesying in Octavia Butler's parable series -- Marching -- "Why do you look for the living among the dead?" : locating the future of Black studies.
Summary
"Black Movements analyzes how artists and activists of recent decades reference earlier freedom movements in order to imagine and produce a more expansive and inclusive democracy. Through an exploration of the way that black movements create circuits connecting people across space and time, Colbert offers important interventions into performance, literary, diaspora, and American studies"-- Provided by publisher.
