{"product_id":"start-a-riot-casarae-lavada-abdul-ghani-9781496840448","title":"Start a Riot!: Civil Unrest in Black Arts Movement Drama, Fiction, and Poetry","description":"While the legacy of Black urban rebellions during the turbulent 1960s continues to permeate throughout US histories and discourses, scholars seldom explore within scholarship examining Black Cultural Production, artist-writers of the Black Arts Movement (BAM) that addressed civil unrest, specifically riots, in their artistic writings. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eStart a Riot! Civil Unrest in Black Arts Movement Drama, Fiction, and Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e analyzes riot iconography and its usefulness as a political strategy of protestation. Through a mixed-methods approach of literary close-reading, historical, and sociological analysis, Casarae Lavada Abdul-Ghani considers how BAM artist-writers like Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), Ben Caldwell, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sonia Sanchez, and Henry Dumas challenge misconceptions regarding Black protest through experimental explorations in their writings. Representations of riots became more pronounced in the 1960s as pivotal leaders shaping Black consciousness, such as Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., were assassinated. BAM artist-writers sought to override the public's interpretation in their literary expos駸 that a riot's disjointed and disorderly methods led to more chaos than reparative justice. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eStart a Riot!\u003c\/i\u003e uncovers how BAM artist-writers expose anti-Black racism and, by extension, the United States' inability to compromise with Black America on matters related to citizenship rights, housing (in)security, economic inequality, and education--tenets emphasized during the Black Power Movement. Abdul-Ghani argues that BAM artist-writers did not merely write literature that reflected a spirit of protest; in many cases, they understood their texts, themselves, as acts of protest.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Casarae Lavada Abdul-Ghani\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1496840445\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781496840448\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Mississippi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/27\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 188\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.62lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.43d","brand":"Casarae Lavada Abdul-Ghani","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44073714024703,"sku":"9781496840448","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e2345e58-0804-46a9-b125-8c7c7fe7de1d.jpg?v=1685449465","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/start-a-riot-casarae-lavada-abdul-ghani-9781496840448","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}