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Introduction : utopia and black American thought
Martin Delany's experiments in escape
Turn of the century black literary utopianism
W.E.B. Du Bois's world of utopian intimacy
George S. Schuyler, irony and utopia
Richard Wright's black power and anticolonial antiutopianism
Sun Ra and cosmic blackness
Samuel Delany and the ambiguity of utopia
Octavia Butler and the politics of utopian transcendence
Conclusion : black utopia and the contemporary political imagination
Martin Delany's experiments in escape
Turn of the century black literary utopianism
W.E.B. Du Bois's world of utopian intimacy
George S. Schuyler, irony and utopia
Richard Wright's black power and anticolonial antiutopianism
Sun Ra and cosmic blackness
Samuel Delany and the ambiguity of utopia
Octavia Butler and the politics of utopian transcendence
Conclusion : black utopia and the contemporary political imagination