Building the Black Arts movement : Hoyt Fuller and the cultural politics of the 1960s / Jonathan Fenderson.

By:

Fenderson, Jonathan, 1980- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: The new Black studies seriesPublisher: [Urbana, Illinois] : University of Illinois Press, [2019]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780252051272
0252051270

Uniform titles:

Journey toward a black aesthetic

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Building the Black Arts movementDDC classification:

700.89/96073 23

LOC classification:

E185.97.F87

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Contents:

Designing the future : Black in a Negro company -- A local construction site : OBAC, Chicago, and the black aesthetic -- Expansion plans : asymmetries of pan-African power -- Scaling back : closure, crisis, and counterrevolutionary times -- Abandoning the past : effacing history and confronting silence -- Coda maintenance, reconstruction, and demolition : contests for black creative control.

Summary: "The project explores the history of the Black Arts Movement through the experience of activist and organizer, Hoyt W. Fuller (1923-1981). In the first book to document and analyze Fuller's profound influence on the movement, Fenderson attends to the paradox between Fuller's central role in the Movement and his marginal place in African-American historiography. The project rethinking both the Black Arts Movement and the broader Black cultural politics of the 1960s.Though focused on Fuller, the project is not simply a biographer; it is a series of historical vignettes covering different aspects of Fuller's cultural activism. As it chronicles Fuller's life, the book also address pivotal events and formative moments that grant insight into the ways the Black Arts Movement took shape at the local level; the ways artists shaped the Movement; how race, class, gender, sexuality, and corporate interests impacted the Movement; and, especially, how recovering Hoyt Fuller's work fundamentally alters our knowledge of the Black Arts Movement"-- Provided by publisher.

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"The project explores the history of the Black Arts Movement through the experience of activist and organizer, Hoyt W. Fuller (1923-1981). In the first book to document and analyze Fuller's profound influence on the movement, Fenderson attends to the paradox between Fuller's central role in the Movement and his marginal place in African-American historiography. The project rethinking both the Black Arts Movement and the broader Black cultural politics of the 1960s.Though focused on Fuller, the project is not simply a biographer; it is a series of historical vignettes covering different aspects of Fuller's cultural activism. As it chronicles Fuller's life, the book also address pivotal events and formative moments that grant insight into the ways the Black Arts Movement took shape at the local level; the ways artists shaped the Movement; how race, class, gender, sexuality, and corporate interests impacted the Movement; and, especially, how recovering Hoyt Fuller's work fundamentally alters our knowledge of the Black Arts Movement"-- Provided by publisher.

Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2011, titled "Journey toward a black aesthetic" : Hoyt Fuller, the Black Arts Movement and the black intellectual community.