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The Black Arts Movement: Literary Nationalism in the 1960's and 1970's
- J. Smethurst
- Art
- 2005
Emerging from a matrix of Old Left, black nationalist, and bohemian ideologies and institutions, African American artists and intellectuals in the 1960s coalesced to form the Black Arts Movement, the… Expand
High Performance Organizations in a Wicked Problem World
- Bryan Coffman, M. Kaufman, J. Smethurst
- 2009
Businesses face difficult challenges related to increasing competition, accelerating change, and increasing complexity. These are sometimes referred to as “wicked problems.” Successful organizations… Expand
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'Pat your foot and turn the corner': Amiri Baraka, the Black Arts Movement, and the poetics of a popular avant-garde
- J. Smethurst
- History
- 22 June 2003
My larger objective here is to engage the current cultural conversation about the nature of the Black Arts Movement and its impact on politics and culture in the United States and beyond. So while I… Expand
Genesis and Crisis: Foundations of a Modern Black Literary Intelligentsia
- James Edward Smethurst
- Philosophy
- 2011
Kitchenette correlatives: African American neo-modernism the popular front, and the emergence of a black literary avant-garde in the 1940s and 1950s
- James Edward Smethurst
- Philosophy
- 2007
Like many of their white peers, post-World War Ⅱ African American writers and critics strongly engaged the legacy of early twentieth century modernism. They were interested in the utility of various… Expand
UMASS Conference: Art and Power in Movement Introduction
- M. D. Davis, J. Smethurst, David M. Swiderski
- Sociology
- 1 September 2011
OVER FOUR HUNDRED SCHOLARS, students, artists, and community activists from as far away as China attended the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Mro-American Studies's "Art and Power in Movement"… Expand
Invented by Horror: The Gothic and African American Literary Ideology in Native Son
- J. Smethurst
- History
- 22 March 2001
Richard Wright's Native Son is still usually taken as one of the foremost examples of late American naturalism, and much is made of the impact of modem sociology, particularly what became known as… Expand
Ancient fluvial sediments: their widespread occurrence and problems for site investigation
- M. E. Barton, P. Redshaw, J. Smethurst, C. Stuiver
- Geology
- 15 September 2015
By contrast to studies in petroleum geology and, despite their world-wide occurrence, geotechnical studies of ancient fluvial sediments are rare. This paper introduces the main characteristics of… Expand