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    <body><![CDATA[I love this book. period. These are some things I love about it: 1. It furthers the work started in Cedric Robinson's <em>Black Marxism</em> which i also really like. 2. It is a personal, hopeful book that incorporates theory in a non-pretentious and accessible way. 3. The chapter on black feminism is amazin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4424391">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Robin Kelley should have called this book Freedom Dreams:  Why I am No Longer in a Marxist Organization.  The book is self-consciously utopian in approach, and interspersed with some potshots against Marxist organizations.  Rather than examining the outcomes of particular groups or movements, Kelley...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/525420">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Amazing discussion of the history of Black radical dreams of various groups and individuals.  Kelley reminds us that it is important to pay attention to the dreams as well as the actions of political groups.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A beautiful journey through the history and evolution of black revolutionary thought in the US and beyond with Kelley's poetic touch and surrealist punchline. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I got to know him very casually while in LA. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was inspirational for me.  And being that I'm new to Black Radical Feminist Theory and History I can't base my opinion on previous reading.  But as a Black queer man living in today's unimaginative world - the concept of looking beyond the revolution to the dream hit home.  And the introdu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65502547">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is a response to anyone who thinks critical/cultural scholarship endlessly talks about problems without providing solutions, or equates radical politics with gray and dreary socialism. Kelley can't imagine a revolution without Bootsey Collins, and in his account love, hope and dreaming fue...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/643427">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Interestingly enough, written by my adviser's dissertation adviser. I had some problems with his research and the conclusions that he came up with, but overall I can see why my adviser respects and likes Kelley so much.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of my favorite books.  RDGK is able to sift through history and think about the visions of alternative futures in a deeply hopeful way... his work is beautiful and inspiring.  <br/><br/>Surreal and real both at once.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[the importance of the imagination in the process of changing the world.<br/>surrealism as a political stance, type of revolution and source of power.<br/>the necessity of envisioning &quot;somewhere in advance of nowhere&quot; --jayne cortez<br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Might be my favorite Robin Kelley book.  This looks at Black radical movements - but it's not whether they failed or succeeded, it's the vision behind them that counts.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[reading robin d.g. kelley is like reading history that i was never told in a way was empowering and inspired hope, fire, and compassion in my soul.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Uhm, in a really nerdy way, I believe this to be one of the best introductions to a nonfiction book ever. Ever.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Captivated from the first paragraph on ... a true visionary. This book made me very happy.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I especially LOVED the chapter on Surrealism here. Will be looking for Aime Cesaire soon.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[creative and brilliant. this is a good book for musicians and historians. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Beautiful book on the importance of dreaming to cultural change.   ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Beautifully written.  I love everything I have ever read by Robin D.G. Kelley]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i don't know why it took me so long to get to this book.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[what brought me to graduate school...]]></body>
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