Nightmare Overhanging Darkly: Essays on African American Culture and ResistanceWith an analysis informed by more than two decades of cultural work and activism on the frontlines, Nightmare Overhanging Darkly reviews the historic tradition of Black cultural resistance to Western imperialism and oppression. In emphasizing the process by which creative artists have initiated and influenced social change, Dr. Acklyn Lynch issues a challenge to Black cultural workers and offers Black educators a blueprint for restructuring Black colleges and universities to best assist Black empowerment. Dr. Lynch centers his study on the 1940s to the 1990s and offers critiques of the major political activists and creative artists of that period -- including Paul Robeson, Sonia Sanchez, Charlie Parker, Malcolm X, Katherine Dunham, Jeff Donaldson, Alice Walker, George Jackson, Richard Wright, Toni Cade Bambara, Romare Bearden, KRS-ONE and others. Lynch reminds us that there is an organic link between art and resistance that moves beyond art for art's sake.--Publisher's description. |
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... social contradictions . Fallen warrior George Jackson likened it to " nightmare overhanging darkly , " a fascist state of centralized authoritative power upon us in this fifth century of Black resistance . In Nightmare Overhanging ...
... social contradictions . Fallen warrior George Jackson likened it to " nightmare overhanging darkly , " a fascist state of centralized authoritative power upon us in this fifth century of Black resistance . In Nightmare Overhanging ...
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... social concern was expressed in many other major compositions during this period , all of which became extremely popular among the masses of Black people . The following , among others , repre- sented this trend : The Golden Gate ...
... social concern was expressed in many other major compositions during this period , all of which became extremely popular among the masses of Black people . The following , among others , repre- sented this trend : The Golden Gate ...
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... social vision goes deeper than the surface ... Much of our contemporary art is rightly an art of social analysis and criticism , touching the vital problems of religion , labor , housing , lynching , unemployment , social reconstruction ...
... social vision goes deeper than the surface ... Much of our contemporary art is rightly an art of social analysis and criticism , touching the vital problems of religion , labor , housing , lynching , unemployment , social reconstruction ...
Contents
Beyond Survival | 7 |
Black on Black Homicide | 27 |
Black Culture in the Early Forties | 53 |
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