Dreaming the present time, aesthetics, and the black cooperative movement / Irvin J. Hunt.
| Author/creator | Hunt, Irvin J. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2022] |
| Description | 268 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Oxford UNC Press Titles |
| Subjects |
| Abstract | "In their darkest hours over the course of the twentieth century, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ella Baker, George Schuyler, and Fannie Lou Hamer gathered hundreds across the United States and beyond to build vast, now forgotten, networks of mutual aid: farms, shops, schools, banks, daycares, homes, health clinics, and burial grounds. They called these spaces "cooperatives," local challenges to global capital, where people pooled all they had to meet all their needs. By reading their activism as an artistic practice, Irvin J. Hunt argues that their overarching need was to free their movement from the logic of progress. Steeped in the wonders of this movement's material afterlife, Hunt extrapolates three non-progressive forms of movement time: a continual beginning, a deliberate falling apart, and a kind of all-at-once simultaneity. These temporalities describe how these leaders, along with their circles, maneuvered the law, reappropriated property, expressed the pleasures of resistance, challenged the value of longevity, built autonomous communities, and fundamentally reimagined what a movement can be"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-250) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2021041569 |
| ISBN | 9781469667928 (cloth) |
| ISBN | 9781469667935 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |