In Dreams in Double Time Jonathan Leal examines how the musical revolution of bebop opened up new futures for racialized and minoritized communities. Blending lyrical nonfiction with transdisciplinary critique and moving beyond standard Blackwhite binary narratives of jazz history Leal focuses on the stories and experiences of three musicians and writers of color James Araki a Nisei multiinstrumentalist soldiertranslator and literature and folklore scholar Ral Salinas a Chicano poet jazz critic and longtime activist who endured the US carceral system for over a decade and Harold Wing an AfroChinese American drummer pianist and songwriter who performed with bebop pioneers before working as a public servant. Leal foregrounds that for these men and their collaborators bebop was an affectively and intellectually powerful force that helped them build community and dream new social possibilities. Bebops complexity and radicality Leal contends made it possible for those like Araki Salinas and Wing who grappled daily with statesanctioned violence to challenge a racially supremacist imperial nation all while hearing and making the world anew.