The Black utopians
Robertson, Aaron, 1994-2025
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How do the disillusioned, the forgotten, and the persecuted not merely hold on to life but expand its possibilities and preserve its beauty? What, in other words, does utopia look like in black? These questions animate Aaron Robertson's exploration of Black Americans' efforts to remake the conditions of their lives. Writing in the tradition of Saidiya Hartman and Ta-Nehisi Coates, Robertson makes his way from his ancestral hometown of Promise Land, Tennessee, to Detroit - the city where he was born, and where one of the country's most remarkable Black utopian experiments got its start.
Main title:
The Black utopians / Aaron Robertson.
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Imprint:
London : Chatto & Windus, 2025.London : Chatto & Windus, 2025.
Collation:
400 pages ; 23 cm
ISBN:
9781784744755 (hbk)
Dewey class:
305.896
Language:
English
Subject:
African Americans -- Race identity -- HistoryAfrican Americans -- ReligionAfrican American neighborhoods -- United States -- HistoryBlack nationalism -- United States -- HistoryCleage, Albert B., Jr., 1911-2000Dowdell, GlantonAfrican Americans -- Political activity -- Michigan -- Detroit -- History -- 20th centuryDetroit (Mich.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th centuryRobertson, Aaron, 1994-United States -- Race relations -- HistorySocietyMemoirsHistorySociety & culture: general
BRN:
2999765