Freedom Dreams (TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY EDITION): The Black Radical Imagination by Robin D.G. Kelley, Aja Monet, Robin D.G. Kelley, Aja Monet

Freedom Dreams (TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY EDITION): The Black Radical Imagination
Robin D.G. Kelley, Aja Monet, Robin D.G. Kelley, Aja Monet
Page: 336
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ISBN: 9780807007037
Publisher: Beacon Press
Freedom Dreams (TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY EDITION): The Black Radical Imagination

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The 20th-anniversary edition of Kelley’s influential history of 20th-century Black radicalism, with new reflections on current movements and their impact on the author, and a foreword by poet Aja Monet

First published in 2002, Freedom Dreams is a staple in the study of the Black radical tradition. Unearthing the thrilling history of grassroots movements and renegade intellectuals and artists, Kelley recovers the dreams of the future worlds Black radicals struggled to achieve.

Focusing on the insights of activists, from the Revolutionary Action Movement to the insurgent poetics of Aimé and Suzanne Césaire, Kelley chronicles the quest for a homeland, the hope that communism offered, the politics of surrealism, the transformative potential of Black feminism, and the long dream of reparations for slavery and Jim Crow.

In this edition, Kelley includes a new introduction reflecting on how movements of the past 20 years have expanded his own vision of freedom to include mutual care, disability justice, abolition, and decolonization, and a new epilogue exploring the visionary organizing of today’s freedom dreamers.

This classic history of the power of the Black radical imagination is as timely as when it was first published.

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