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Social Essays
Published on 1. August 2018
250 pages
978-1-61775-050-2 (ISBN)
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Essays of the 1960s by a prominent African American voice who "demands rights-not conditional favors" (
The New York Times Book Review)
.
Amiri Baraka, also known as LeRoi Jones, was known not only as a poet, playwright, and founder of the Black Arts movement, but also as one of the most provocative voices of the civil rights era and beyond.
These pieces, which span the years from 1960 to 1965, cover subjects ranging from Cuba to Malcolm X to street protests and soul food, and are accompanied by the author's new introduction from 2009.
Amiri Baraka, also known as LeRoi Jones, was known not only as a poet, playwright, and founder of the Black Arts movement, but also as one of the most provocative voices of the civil rights era and beyond.
These pieces, which span the years from 1960 to 1965, cover subjects ranging from Cuba to Malcolm X to street protests and soul food, and are accompanied by the author's new introduction from 2009.
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LeRoi Jones, who later went by Amiri Barakas (1934-2014), was the author of numerous books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. He was named poet laureate of New Jersey by the New Jersey Commission for the Humanities, from 2002-2004. His short story collection
Tales of the Out & the Gone (Akashic Books) was a
New York Times Editors' Choice and won a 2008 PEN/Beyond Margins Award. He is also the author of
Home: Social Essays,
Black Music, and
The System of Dante's Hell, among other works.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- 2009
- HOME (new introduction)
- 1965
- HOME (original introduction)
- 1960
- Cuba Libre
- 1961
- Letter to Jules Feiffer
- 1962
- Tokenism: 300 Years for Five Cents
- "Black" Is a Country
- City of Harlem
- Cold, Hurt, and Sorrow (Streets of Despair)
- Street Protest
- Soul Food
- The Myth of a "Negro Literature"
- 1963
- Brief Reflections on Two Hot Shots
- A Dark Bag
- What Does Nonviolence Mean?
- The Dempsey-Liston Fight
- Black Writing
- Expressive Language
- 1964
- Hunting Is Not Those Heads on the Wall
- LeRoi Jones Talking
- The Last Days of the American Empire (Including Some Instructions for Black People)
- The Revolutionary Theatre
- 1965
- American Sexual Reference: Black Male
- Blackhope
- The Legacy of Malcolm X, and the Coming of the Black Nation
- STATE/MEANT
