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"An in-depth account of the cultural and political life of Black artists and activists in the South from the 1960s to the '80s . . . Scholars of African American literature and history will relish the granular look this influential yet often overlooked artistic movement.""--Publishers Weekly In Behold the Land, Smethurst demonstrates that decades of organizing and institution building, from the Garveyite years and the Popular Front to the civil rights movement, helped preserve a Black radicalism in the South that eventually became central to the Black Arts Movement in the region...Smethurst joins scholars like GerShun Avilez and Carter Mathes in revising the canonical understanding of the Black Arts Movement.""--The Nation Striking . . . meticulous research . . . Smethurst [shows] how the Black Arts became integrated into the institutional structures of Southern cities and evolved into organizations and events that, if less overtly radical than their earlier iterations, had more staying power.""--Society for US Intellectual History"

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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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