The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America - Aaron Robertson
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gtin: 9781250397577
brand: Aaron Robertson
category: Biography & Autobiography
description: One of The New York Times's 100 Notable Books of 2024 \nOne of the Washington Post's 50 Best Nonfiction Books of 2024 A New York Public Library Top Ten Book of 2024 A Boston Globe Best Book of 2024 \nA New Republic Best Book of the Fall A Time Must-Read Book of the Year \nA 2025 Michigan Notable Book \nNamed a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker Literary Hub Essence Elle Chicago Public Library \n [An] extraordinary new work of history and memoir . . . Unforgettable. --Gabriel Bump, The Washington Post An extraordinary achievement in narrative nonfiction. --Hamilton Cain, Minneapolis Star-Tribune A lyrical meditation on how Black Americans have envisioned utopia--and sought to transform their lives. How do the disillusioned, the forgotten, and the persecuted not merely hold on to life but expand its possibilities and preserve its beauty? What, in other words, does utopia look like in black? \n \nThese questions animate Aaron Robertson's exploration of Black Americans' efforts to remake the conditions of their lives. Writing in the tradition of Saidiya Hartman and Ta-Nehisi Coates, Robertson makes his way from his ancestral hometown of Promise Land, Tennessee, to Detroit--the city where he was born, and where one of the country's most remarkable Black utopian experiments got its start. Founded by the brilliant preacher Albert Cleage Jr., the Shrine of the Black Madonna combined Afrocentric Christian practice with radical social projects to transform the self-conception of its members. Central to this endeavor was the Shrine's chancel mural of a Black Virgin and child, the icon of a nationwide liberation movement that would come to be known as Black Christian Nationalism. The Shrine's members opened bookstores and co-ops, created a self-defense force, and raised their children communally, eventually working to establish the country's largest Black-owned farm, where attempts to create an earthly paradise for Black people continues today. Alongside the Shrine's story…
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