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Dysfunctional Functionality
2012
Overview
It is important to consider how the agenda of the Black Arts Movement was shaped by and paradoxically instituted through a collaboration of competing and discordant voices. Whether artists, activists, and intellectuals defined themselves as “Black Artists” during this era or not, many of them favored a socially progressive agenda for pursuing cultural empowerment for black communities. “Historically within the United States, black resistance to domination has been pacifist, militarist, or a creative combination of the two” (James 143). Consequently, this crosscurrent of perspectives proved to be integral to the fomentation of BAM ideals. As those who opposed various aspects
