Behold the Land
The Black Arts Movement in the South
By James Smethurst

248 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 7 halftones
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Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-6304-3
Published: June 2021 -
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4696-6303-6
Published: June 2021
John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
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Though recognition of its influence has waned, the Black Arts movement's legacy in the South endures through many of its initiatives and constituencies. Ultimately, Smethurst argues that the movement's southern strain was perhaps the most consequential, successfully reaching the grassroots and leaving a tangible, local legacy unmatched anywhere else in the United States.
About the Author
James Smethurst is professor of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and author of The Black Arts Movement: Literary Nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s.
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"This book is vital and visionary. James Smethurst's exemplary study accomplishes the task of presenting the extensive work of a diverse group of African American artists across the South."--Howard Rambsy II, author of The Black Arts Enterprise and the Production of African American Poetry
"Meticulously researched and beautifully written, Behold the Land is bound to become the definitive study of the Black Arts movement in the South"--Margo Natalie Crawford, author of Black Post-Blackness: The Black Arts Movement and Twenty-First-Century Aesthetics