Black Utopia: The History of an Idea from Black Nationalism to Afrofuturism
ISBN: 9780231547253
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Columbia University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: History ; Political Science ; Language & Literature ; Sociology ; Philosophy;

Alex Zamalin offers a groundbreaking examination of African American visions of utopia and their counterutopian counterparts. Considering figures linked to racial separatism, postracialism, anticolonialism, Pan-Africanism, and Afrofuturism, he argues that the black utopian tradition continues to challenge American political thought and culture.


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Alex Zamalin (PhD, Political Science, CUNY Graduate Center) is Director of African American Studies and Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Detroit. He is the author of African American Political Thought and American Culture: The Nation's Struggle for Racial Justice (Palgrave, 2015) and Struggle on Their Minds: The Political Thought of African American Resistance (Columbia, 2017) and the coeditor (with Jonathan Keller) of American Political Thought: An Alternative Reader (Routledge, 2017).Alex Zamalin is assistant professor of political science and director of the African American Studies Program at University of Detroit, Mercy. He is the author of African American Political Thought and American Culture: The Nation's Struggle for Racial Justice (2015); Struggle on Their Minds: The Political Thought of African American Resistance (Columbia, 2017); and Antiracism: An Introduction (2019).

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