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Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination

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While Robin Kelley might claim this book is not a "true" intellectual history, there's an awful lot of intellect packed inside. His profound thoughts, engaging writing, and motivating ideas all find focus with his idea that the center of any movement for change has to be love -- love of self, love of people, love of place. Jammed with interesting historical notes and biographies, his sweeping perspective on what it has meant to be black and, perhaps more importantly, identified as such, would serve every citizen of the world well. And if Mayor Mike B. and his constitutents would read Kelley's idea for downtown NYC, New York -- and the world -- might have a chance.

This is the BEST book I've read in the last 20 years!! A must read for anyone interested in the Utopian vision of radical movements. I learned a great deal about the reparations movement, Black feminism, and a movement no one is talking about-Surrealism. And it's beautifully written.

This book is beyond excellent. It covers the topics that are not usually covered in regards to the political activity and productions of African Americans. GREAT READ! For those not as radical as I it may be a challenge, however, that makes it all the more important for you to dive into!

This book is truly awful. I had the misfortune of being assigned this book for a class, and let me tell you...Just awful. First of all, the author is a unreconstructed Communist who never admitted that Communism failed. Secondly, the book is totally self-indulgent; it's not historical at all. He writes in the first person and offers nothing to back up his statements (no citations). This guy is really out to lunch. Catch his next book, published by Bellevue State Press.