Building the Black Arts Movement: Hoyt Fuller and the Cultural Politics of the 1960s

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As both an activist and the dynamic editor of Negro Digest, Hoyt W. Fuller stood at the nexus of the Black Arts Movement and the broader black cultural politics of his time. Jonathan Fenderson uses historical snapshots of Fuller's life and achievements to rethink the period and establish Fuller's important role in laying the foundation for the movement. In telling Fuller's story, Fenderson provides provocative new insights into the movement's international dimensions, the ways the movement took shape at the local level, the impact of race and other factors, and the challenges--corporate, political, and personal--that Fuller and others faced in trying to build black institutions. An innovative study that approaches the movement from a historical perspective, Building the Black Arts Movement is a much-needed reassessment of the trajectory of African American culture over two explosive decades. Cover......Page 1 Title page......Page 4 Copyright......Page 5 Contents......Page 8 Acknowledgments......Page 10 Introduction: A Movement Architect......Page 18 1. Designing the Future: Black in a Negro Company......Page 34 2. A Local Construction S......Page 72 3. Expansion Plans: Asymmetries of Pan-African Power......Page 108 4. Scaling Back: Closure, Crisis, and Counterrevolutionary Times......Page 136 5. Abandoning the Past: Effacing History and Confronting Silence......Page 164 Coda Maintenance, Reconstruction, and Demolition: Contests for Black Creative Control......Page 188 Notes......Page 200 Bibliography......Page 244 Index......Page 262