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Freedom Dreams

The Black Radical Imagination

by Robin D.G. Kelley
Aja Monet
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The 20th-anniversary edition of Kelley’s influential history of 20th-century Black radicalism, with new reflections on current movements and their impact on the author, and a foreword by poet Aja Monet
First published in 2002, Freedom Dreams is a staple in the study of the Black radical tradition. Unearthing the thrilling history of grassroots movements and renegade intellectuals and artists, Kelley recovers the dreams of the future worlds Black radicals struggled to achieve.
Focusing on the insights of activists, from the Revolutionary Action Movement to the insurgent poetics of Aimé and Suzanne Césaire, Kelley chronicles the quest for a homeland, the hope that communism offered, the politics of surrealism, the transformative potential of Black feminism, and the long dream of reparations for slavery and Jim Crow.
In this edition, Kelley includes a new introduction reflecting on how movements of the past 20 years have expanded his own vision of freedom to include mutual care, disability justice, abolition, and decolonization, and a new epilogue exploring the visionary organizing of today’s freedom dreamers.
This classic history of the power of the Black radical imagination is as timely as when it was first published.

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    August 23, 2022

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      • ISBN: 9780807007914
      • File size: 310870 KB
      • Duration: 10:47:38

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      JD Jackson capably narrates this simultaneously erudite and concise primer on African-American revolutionary thought. In reviewing the history of the past century, Kelley focuses on radical thinkers and movements as they relate to the meaning and practice of individual freedom. In doing so, he delves into the complexity of race, class, and gender, exploring why revolution has yet to be fully realized. Steady and even, Jackson navigates Kelley's heady examination well, though there are passages that would benefit from varied inflection. However, Jackson's tone lifts effectively in the final chapter as Kelley argues that the pathway toward liberation lies in surrealism, a way of thinking that elevates the imagination as the singular weapon to defeat oppression. A.S. © AudioFile 2018, Portland, Maine

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