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Left of Black | The Black Arts Movement of the South with James Smethurst
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Reconsidering ‘The Historian in the World’ | John Hope Franklin Legacies Series
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Left of Black with GerShun Avilez
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Community Class Series: HBCUs and Black Leadership
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Left of Black | Erica R. Edwards on Black Women and U.S. Empire
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Left of Black with Sylvia Chan-Malik
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A Lecture on Postmodernism and Beat, Feminist, and Black Arts Poetry
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Since 1968: The Drum & Spear Bookstore
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HAP 112 – Poems That Kill – the Black Arts Movement
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02/09/18 African American History and Culture Conference
Emerging from a matrix of Old Left, black nationalist, and bohemian ideologies and institutions, African American artists and intellectuals in the 1960s coalesced to form the Black Arts Movement, the cultural wing of the Black Power Movement. In this comprehensive analysis, James Smethurst examines the formation of the Black Arts Movement and demonstrates how it deeply influenced the production and reception of literature and art in the United States through its negotiations of the ideological climate of the Cold War, decolonization, and the civil rights movement.
Taking a regional approach, Smethurst examines local expressions of the nascent Black Arts Movement, a movement distinctive in its geographical reach and diversity, while always keeping the frame of the larger movement in view. The Black Arts Movement, he argues, fundamentally changed American attitudes about the relationship between popular culture and "high" art and dramatically transformed the landscape of public funding for the arts.
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