Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Fenderson, Jonathan, 1980-

Publication

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2019]

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Details

Description

xiv, 255 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

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"--

Series Statement

The new Black studies series

Uniform Title

• Journey toward a black aesthetic
• New Black studies series.

Alternative Title

Journey toward a black aesthetic

Subject

• Fuller, Hoyt, 1923-1981
• 1900-1999
• Black Arts movement
• Black nationalism > United States > History > 20th century
• African American arts > 20th century
• African Americans > Intellectual life > 20th century
• African American arts
• African Americans > Intellectual life
• Black nationalism
• United States

Genre/Form

History.

Note

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

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Call Number

Sc E 19-1114

ISBN

• 9780252042430
• 0252042433
• 9780252084225
• 0252084225

LCCN

2018045728

OCLC

1057377091

Author

Fenderson, Jonathan, 1980- author.

Title

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

Publisher

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2019]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

The new Black studies series

New Black studies series.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Local Subject

Black author.

Research Call Number

Sc E 19-1114