Research Output per year
Research Output per year
20th century and contemporary African American cultural history, cooperative economics, humor studies, social movement theory, performance studies, and affect theory.
My forthcoming manuscript, Dreams of the Present: Time, Aesthetics, and the Black Cooperative Movement will be the first book length study of the grassroots role American artists played in establishing cooperatives, businesses owned by their patrons, who democratically distribute the collective surplus. With material from over 27 archives across the US, the book uncovers how four generations of African American artists, in particular—W. E. B. Du Bois, George Schuyler, Ella Baker, Fannie Lou Hamer, and their circles—established local cooperatives as alternatives to global capital. Providing four new concepts that identify innovations to social movement development--sustained incipience, necromance, planned failure, and pluriprsence--I argue that these luminaries experimented with ways of forming a social movement beyond the promise of progress. Where do you move to, they asked, when not to a better tomorrow? In the end I show how one of the most remarkable mass movements in American history profoundly speaks to the challenges of our time.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Special issue › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
Irvin Joseph Hunt (Speaker)
Activity: Talk types › Oral presentation
Irvin Joseph Hunt (Speaker)
Activity: Talk types › Oral presentation
Irvin Joseph Hunt (Speaker)
Activity: Talk types › Oral presentation
Irvin Joseph Hunt (Visiting researcher)
Activity: Visit other types › Visiting an external academic institution