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Author Hunt, Irvin J., author

Title Dreaming the present : time, aesthetics, and the Black cooperative movement / Irvin J. Hunt
Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2022]

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Description 1 online resource (268 pages) : illustrations, map
Contents Introduction: The only way out was in -- Sustained incipience : W. E. B. Du Bois and the Negro Cooperative Guild -- Planned failure : George Schuyler, Ella Baker, and the Yong Negroes' Cooperative League -- Pluripresence : Fannie Lou Hamer's Freedom Farm -- Conclusion: Trouble in the water -- Afterword: This bridge called the system : an interview with Stephanie Morningstar
Summary "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 Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 14, 2022)
Subject African Americans -- Social conditions -- 20th century
African Americans -- Economic conditions -- 20th century
Social movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Cooperative societies -- United States -- History -- 20th century
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies.
Social movements
Cooperative societies
African Americans -- Social conditions
African Americans -- Economic conditions
United States
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021041569
ISBN 9781469667959
1469667959
9781469667942
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