Behold the Land: The Black Arts Movement in the South

by James Smethurst

Book Overview

In the mid-1960s, African American artists and intellectuals formed the Black Arts movement in tandem with the Black Power movement, with creative luminaries like Amiri Baraka, Gwendolyn Brooks, Toni Cade Bambara, and Gil Scott-Heron among their number. In this follow-up to his award-winning history of the movement nationally, James Smethurst investigates the origins, development, maturation, and decline of the vital but under-studied Black Arts movement...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 146966304X
• ISBN13: 9781469663043
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.7" x 9.2"