Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black PowerAfrican American art in the era of Malcolm X and the Black Panthers In the period of radical change that was 1963 83, young black artists at the beginning of their careers confronted difficult questions about art, politics and racial identity. How to make art that would stand as innovative, original, formally and materially complex, while also making work that reflected their concerns and experience as black Americans? Soul of a Nation surveys this