Civil Unrest in Black Arts Movement Literature

Casarae Abdul-Ghani

Assistant Professor of English, Temple University

Abdul-Ghani will explore the legacy of 1960s civil unrest as captured by the contemporaneous Black Arts Movement (BAM) in drama, fiction, and poetry. BAM forged new conversations about the union of art, activism, and social justice; it also centralized the African American perspective in narrative. In the present day, it provides a better way to view our uncomfortable conversation about systemic racism in the United States. Abdul-Ghani’s book, Start a Riot! Civil Unrest in Black Arts Movement Drama, Fiction, and Poetry, will be released by the University Press of Mississippi on August 15.

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