Black Phoenix: Third World Perspectives on Contemporary Art and Culture

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Edited by Rasheed Araeen and Mahmood Jamal in the UK between 1978 and 1979, this publication is a pivotal document of transnational solidarity and cultural production across visual art, literature, and activism. It compiles all three issues of the journal into one volume. Emerging over a decade after the liberation movements of the 1960s and significant conferences advocating for solidarity among Africa, Asia, and Latin America, this work called for a liberatory arts and culture movement throughout the Third World. It placed diasporic and colonial histories at the forefront of an evolving anti-racist and anti-imperialist consciousness in late 1970s Britain, contributing to complex discourses on race, class, and postcolonial theory in the subsequent decade. The publication envisioned a horizon for Blackness that transcended racial binaries, resonating across the Third World and the West. Contributors include a diverse array of art critics, scholars, and writers from various countries, such as Rasheed Araeen and Mahmood Jamal (Pakistan), Guy Brett and Kenneth Coutts-Smith (UK), Ariel Dorfman (Chile), Eduardo Galeano (Uruguay), and many others from across the globe.