Robin D. G. Kelley is Distinguished Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA. He is author or co-editor of numerous award-winning books including Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original(The Free Press, 2009); Yo’ Mama’s Disfunktional!: Fighting the Culture Wars in Urban America (Beacon Press, 1997); and Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class (The Free Press, 1994), among others.
Foreword by Aja Monet
Introduction: Freedom Dreams: From Noun to Verb, Fall 2021
Preface
“When History Sleeps”: A Beginning
1. Dreams of the New Land
2. “The Negro Question”: Red Dreams of Black Liberation
3. “Roaring from the East”: Third World Dreaming
4. “A Day of Reckoning”: Dreams of Reparations
5. “This Battlefield Called Life”: Black Feminist Dreams
6. Keeping It (Sur)real: Dreams of the Marvelous
“When History Wakes”: A New Beginning, Fall 2021
Sources
Acknowledgments
Index
