Coda Maintenance, Reconstruction, and Demolition
Coda Maintenance, Reconstruction, and Demolition
Contests for Black Creative Control
The coda gives a snapshot of three critical institutional arrangements that offer a framework for understanding the end of the Black Arts movement. Each of these three institutions--Howard University’s Institute for the Arts and Humanities; the seminar on the Reconstruction of African-American Literature, co-sponsored by the Modern Language Association and National Endowment for the Humanities; and the FBI’s Counterintelligence Program (and larger surveillance state)--were tied to Fuller’s life and the closing window of opportunity he faced at the end of the movement. More importantly, the coda contends that the presence (or absence) of these institutions in our collective memory help to shape our broader understanding of the Black Arts movement. It not only offers a three-pronged conclusion to the narrative arch of the book, but it also argues that cultural politics played a tremendous role in shaping African American intellectuals’ access to institutional resources.
Keywords: Howard University, Modern Language Association, COINTELPRO, Chicago Red Squad, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Central Intelligence Agency, Reconstruction of Instruction, Incorporation, social movements, repression
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