Abstract
The legacy of Black urban rebellions during the turbulent 1960s continues to permeate throughout U.S. histories and discourses. Thus, scholars seldom explore within scholarship examining Black Cultural Production, artists-writers of the Black Arts Movement (BAM) that addressed civil unrest, specifically riots, in their artistic writings. Start A Riot!: Civil Unrest in Black Arts Movement Drama, Fiction, and Poetry analyzes riot iconography and its usefulness as a political strategy of protestation. Through a mixed-methods approach of literary close-reading, historical, and sociological analysis, Casarae Lavada Abdul-Ghani considers how Amiri Baraka, Ben Caldwell, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sonia Sanchez, and Henry Dumas, through experimental explorations in their writings, challenge misconceptions regarding Black protest.
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