Amiri Baraka : : The Politics and Art of a Black Intellectual / / Jerry Watts.
Amiri Baraka, formerly known as LeRoi Jones, became known as one of the most militant, anti-white black nationalists of the 1960s Black Power movement. An advocate of Black Cultural Nationalism, Baraka supported the rejection of all things white and western. He helped found and direct the influentia...
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| Year of Publication: | 2001 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Birth of an Intellectual Journey
- 2 Bohemian Immersions
- 3 An Alien among Outsiders
- 4 Rejecting Bohemia: The Politicization of Ethnic Guilt
- 5 The Quest for a Blacker Art
- 6 Toward a Black Arts Infrastructure
- 7 Black Arts Poet and Essayist
- 8 Black Revolutionary Playwright
- 9 Kawaida: Totalizing the Commitment
- 10 The Slave as Master: Black Nationalism, Kawaida, and the Repression of Women
- 11 New-Ark and the Emergence of Pragmatic Nationalism
- 12 Pan-Africanism
- 13 National Black Political Convention
- 14 Ever Faithful: Toward a Religious Marxism
- 15 The Artist as Marxist / The Marxist as Artist
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author