New Thoughts on the Black Arts Movement

by Margo Natalie Crawford, Alondra Nelson, Lisa Gail Collins

During the 1960s and 1970s, a cadre of poets, playwrights, visual artists, musicians, and other visionaries came together to create a renaissance in African American literature and art. This charged chapter in the history of African American culture-which came to be known as the Black Arts Movement-has remained largely neglected by subsequent generations of critics. New Thoughts on the Black Arts Movement includes essays that reexamine well-known...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813536952
• ISBN13: 9780813536958
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 406 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 10.0"