Will the Circle ever be unbroken ? Race and racial chains of command are fortitied
through the expansion of a prevalent, societal, white aesthetic and through the discernments
connected with physical qualities. The Black Arts Era, was a period of artistic and literary
development among black Americans in the 1960s and early ’70s.
Based on politics and black nationalism, which were developed into a set of theories
referred to as the Black Aesthetic, the movement sought to create and separate art form to
promote the idea of black separatism. Many adherents viewed the artist as an activist
responsible for the formation of racially separate publishing houses, theatre troupes, and study
