Table of Contents:
  • Foreground and underground : the Left, nationalism, and the origins of the Black arts matrix
  • Artists imagine the nation, the nation imagines art : the Black Arts Movement and popular culture, history, gender, performance, and textuality
  • New York altar city : New York, the Northeast, and the development of Black arts cadres and ideologies
  • Institutions for the people : Chicago, Detroit, and the Black Arts Movement in the Midwest
  • Bandung world : the West Coast, the Black Arts Movement, and the development of revolutionary nationalism, cultural nationalism, third worldism, and multiculturalism
  • Behold the land : regionalism, the Black nation, and the Black Arts Movement in the South.