Tru Leverette is an Associate Professor of English and Director of Africana Studies at the University of North Florida.

• Foreword: “The Umbra Origins of the Black Arts Movement” by Ishmael Reed Introduction: “Why the Black Arts Movement Matters Now” by Tru Leverette PART 1: Roots Chapter 1: “‘[M]other of us poets’: Margaret Walker and the Black Arts Movement” by Seretha D. Williams Chapter 2: “Myths, Stereotypes, Sexual Politics, and the Black Power Movement in Alice Childress’s Wine in the Wilderness” by Ama S. Wattley Chapter 3: “Sonia Sanchez: A Dynamic Voice of Black Arts Poetry” by John Zheng Chapter 4: “Against the Grain: Alice Childress and the Black Arts Movement” by Elizabeth Smith PART 2: Re-Envisionings Chapter 5: “Humor in Hue: Gag Cartoons as Satire in Black World Magazine during the Black Arts Movement, 1970-1976” by Nathaniel Frederick II and William Schulte Chapter 6: “Freeing Black: Myth, Language, and Revolution via Fran Ross’s Oreo” by Tru Leverette Chapter 7: “Stepping to His Own Music: Influences and Plurality of Black Identities in William Melvin Kelley’s Works” by Yannick Blec Chapter 8: “Fighting the Wrongheaded Doppelgänger: Ishmael Reed and the Media” by Samuel Ludwig Chapter 9: “Rage Against the Machine: Black Impotency and the Failures of Liberalism in Amiri Baraka’s Dutchman and The Slave” by Kel Martin PART 3: Revivals Chapter 10: “The Black Arts Movement: A Visual Arts Perspective” by Paul Von Blum Chapter 11: “Updating the Legacy of Black Arts Movement and Staying Relevant: Reconnecting with Africa in Ishmael Reed’s Japanese by Spring” by Jiri Salamoun Chapter 12: “BAM Legacies and the ‘Inner Life’ in the Contemporary Poetry of Rickey Laurentiis and Danez Smith: Discovering A 21st-Century Dialogic Sublime” by Leila Kamali Chapter 13: “Being Alive. Being a Woman. Being Colored: The dilemma of being black and female at the intersection of visual and performance art during the Black Arts Movement” by Erin Kendrick Conclusion: “Black Love, Black Beauty, Black Abundance, and the Ongoing Work of Becoming” by Tru Leverette

'A unique text that will make an important contribution by fresh voices to the growing body of scholarship on the Black Arts Movement.' Jonathan Fenderson, Associate Professor, African & African-American Studies, Washington University in St. Louis

Tru Leverette is an Associate Professor of English and Director of Africana Studies at the University of North Florida.

• Foreword: “The Umbra Origins of the Black Arts Movement” by Ishmael Reed Introduction: “Why the Black Arts Movement Matters Now” by Tru Leverette PART 1: Roots Chapter 1: “‘[M]other of us poets’: Margaret Walker and the Black Arts Movement” by Seretha D. Williams Chapter 2: “Myths, Stereotypes, Sexual Politics, and the Black Power Movement in Alice Childress’s Wine in the Wilderness” by Ama S. Wattley Chapter 3: “Sonia Sanchez: A Dynamic Voice of Black Arts Poetry” by John Zheng Chapter 4: “Against the Grain: Alice Childress and the Black Arts Movement” by Elizabeth Smith PART 2: Re-Envisionings Chapter 5: “Humor in Hue: Gag Cartoons as Satire in Black World Magazine during the Black Arts Movement, 1970-1976” by Nathaniel Frederick II and William Schulte Chapter 6: “Freeing Black: Myth, Language, and Revolution via Fran Ross’s Oreo” by Tru Leverette Chapter 7: “Stepping to His Own Music: Influences and Plurality of Black Identities in William Melvin Kelley’s Works” by Yannick Blec Chapter 8: “Fighting the Wrongheaded Doppelgänger: Ishmael Reed and the Media” by Samuel Ludwig Chapter 9: “Rage Against the Machine: Black Impotency and the Failures of Liberalism in Amiri Baraka’s Dutchman and The Slave” by Kel Martin PART 3: Revivals Chapter 10: “The Black Arts Movement: A Visual Arts Perspective” by Paul Von Blum Chapter 11: “Updating the Legacy of Black Arts Movement and Staying Relevant: Reconnecting with Africa in Ishmael Reed’s Japanese by Spring” by Jiri Salamoun Chapter 12: “BAM Legacies and the ‘Inner Life’ in the Contemporary Poetry of Rickey Laurentiis and Danez Smith: Discovering A 21st-Century Dialogic Sublime” by Leila Kamali Chapter 13: “Being Alive. Being a Woman. Being Colored: The dilemma of being black and female at the intersection of visual and performance art during the Black Arts Movement” by Erin Kendrick Conclusion: “Black Love, Black Beauty, Black Abundance, and the Ongoing Work of Becoming” by Tru Leverette

'A unique text that will make an important contribution by fresh voices to the growing body of scholarship on the Black Arts Movement.' Jonathan Fenderson, Associate Professor, African & African-American Studies, Washington University in St. Louis

Tru Leverette is an Associate Professor of English and Director of Africana Studies at the University of North Florida.

• Foreword: “The Umbra Origins of the Black Arts Movement” by Ishmael Reed Introduction: “Why the Black Arts Movement Matters Now” by Tru Leverette PART 1: Roots Chapter 1: “‘[M]other of us poets’: Margaret Walker and the Black Arts Movement” by Seretha D. Williams Chapter 2: “Myths, Stereotypes, Sexual Politics, and the Black Power Movement in Alice Childress’s Wine in the Wilderness” by Ama S. Wattley Chapter 3: “Sonia Sanchez: A Dynamic Voice of Black Arts Poetry” by John Zheng Chapter 4: “Against the Grain: Alice Childress and the Black Arts Movement” by Elizabeth Smith PART 2: Re-Envisionings Chapter 5: “Humor in Hue: Gag Cartoons as Satire in Black World Magazine during the Black Arts Movement, 1970-1976” by Nathaniel Frederick II and William Schulte Chapter 6: “Freeing Black: Myth, Language, and Revolution via Fran Ross’s Oreo” by Tru Leverette Chapter 7: “Stepping to His Own Music: Influences and Plurality of Black Identities in William Melvin Kelley’s Works” by Yannick Blec Chapter 8: “Fighting the Wrongheaded Doppelgänger: Ishmael Reed and the Media” by Samuel Ludwig Chapter 9: “Rage Against the Machine: Black Impotency and the Failures of Liberalism in Amiri Baraka’s Dutchman and The Slave” by Kel Martin PART 3: Revivals Chapter 10: “The Black Arts Movement: A Visual Arts Perspective” by Paul Von Blum Chapter 11: “Updating the Legacy of Black Arts Movement and Staying Relevant: Reconnecting with Africa in Ishmael Reed’s Japanese by Spring” by Jiri Salamoun Chapter 12: “BAM Legacies and the ‘Inner Life’ in the Contemporary Poetry of Rickey Laurentiis and Danez Smith: Discovering A 21st-Century Dialogic Sublime” by Leila Kamali Chapter 13: “Being Alive. Being a Woman. Being Colored: The dilemma of being black and female at the intersection of visual and performance art during the Black Arts Movement” by Erin Kendrick Conclusion: “Black Love, Black Beauty, Black Abundance, and the Ongoing Work of Becoming” by Tru Leverette

'A unique text that will make an important contribution by fresh voices to the growing body of scholarship on the Black Arts Movement.' Jonathan Fenderson, Associate Professor, African & African-American Studies, Washington University in St. Louis