Alex Zamalin is assistant professor of political science and director of the African American Studies Program at University of Detroit Mercy. He is the author of African American Political Thought and American Culture: The Nation’s Struggle for Racial Justice (2015); Struggle on Their Minds: The Political Thought of African American Resistance (Columbia, 2017); and Antiracism: An Introduction (2019).

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Utopia and Black American Thought1. Martin Delany’s Experiment in Escape2. Turn-of-the-Century Black Literary Utopianism3. W. E. B. Du Bois’s World of Utopian Intimacy4. George S. Schuyler, Irony, and Utopia5. Richard Wright’s Black Power and Anticolonial Antiutopianism6. Sun Ra and Cosmic Blackness7. Samuel Delany and the Ambiguity of Utopia8. Octavia Butler and the Politics of Utopian TranscendenceConclusion: Black Utopia and the Contemporary Political ImaginationNotesBibliographyIndex

For its recovery of utopian thinking as creatively and politically productive in African American literature, however, Zamalin earns high marks.

Alex Zamalin is assistant professor of political science and director of the African American Studies Program at University of Detroit Mercy. He is the author of African American Political Thought and American Culture: The Nation’s Struggle for Racial Justice (2015); Struggle on Their Minds: The Political Thought of African American Resistance (Columbia, 2017); and Antiracism: An Introduction (2019).

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Utopia and Black American Thought1. Martin Delany’s Experiment in Escape2. Turn-of-the-Century Black Literary Utopianism3. W. E. B. Du Bois’s World of Utopian Intimacy4. George S. Schuyler, Irony, and Utopia5. Richard Wright’s Black Power and Anticolonial Antiutopianism6. Sun Ra and Cosmic Blackness7. Samuel Delany and the Ambiguity of Utopia8. Octavia Butler and the Politics of Utopian TranscendenceConclusion: Black Utopia and the Contemporary Political ImaginationNotesBibliographyIndex

For its recovery of utopian thinking as creatively and politically productive in African American literature, however, Zamalin earns high marks.

Alex Zamalin is assistant professor of political science and director of the African American Studies Program at University of Detroit Mercy. He is the author of African American Political Thought and American Culture: The Nation’s Struggle for Racial Justice (2015); Struggle on Their Minds: The Political Thought of African American Resistance (Columbia, 2017); and Antiracism: An Introduction (2019).

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Utopia and Black American Thought1. Martin Delany’s Experiment in Escape2. Turn-of-the-Century Black Literary Utopianism3. W. E. B. Du Bois’s World of Utopian Intimacy4. George S. Schuyler, Irony, and Utopia5. Richard Wright’s Black Power and Anticolonial Antiutopianism6. Sun Ra and Cosmic Blackness7. Samuel Delany and the Ambiguity of Utopia8. Octavia Butler and the Politics of Utopian TranscendenceConclusion: Black Utopia and the Contemporary Political ImaginationNotesBibliographyIndex

For its recovery of utopian thinking as creatively and politically productive in African American literature, however, Zamalin earns high marks.