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The Black utopians : searching for paradise and the Promised Land in America / Aaron Robertson

Author
Robertson, Aaron, 1994-
Additional Titles
Searching for paradise and the Promised Land in America
Published
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Description
x, 382 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

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Contents
The Furnace and the Forge. Promise land -- A church and a one-room school -- Letter II: Genesis -- The promised land that wasn't -- Black bottom -- No one starved in California -- The kingdoms of God -- Southeast corner of my cell -- Letter III: bad spirit multiplying -- Imperium in imperio -- Letter IV: Just a prisoner -- A strategy of chaos -- 'You were beautiful when your apparition formed' -- A new faith -- Counter-Culture. New Afrika -- Letter V: Connecting the dots -- Politisk Asyl at Glanton Dowdell! -- Letter VI: From Eight Mile to the Infinte South -- The valley of dry bones -- Letter VII: The art shop -- Time rituals -- Formation -- Messiahs -- Letter VIII: Free thoughts -- The science of becoming what you already are -- Black Kibbutzniks -- The Land of Corn & Wine. Letter IX: Prodigal son -- The prison letters of Dorian Robertson are missing -- An armful of beautiful roses -- A place flowing with milk and honey -- The world system -- A model community -- Shrines -- The Cumberland -- Rest -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Summary
"A memoiristic history of Black utopian movements in the United States"--
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ISBN
9780374604981 (hardcover)
0374604983
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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