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636465
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Watts, Jerry Gafio
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| Title & Author
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Amiri Baraka : : the politics and art of a Black intellectual /\ Jerry Gafio Watts
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xiv, 577 pages ;; 24 cm
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0814793738
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: 9780814793732
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 553-570) and index
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| Contents
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Birth of an intellectual journey -- Bohemian immersions -- An alien among outsider -- Rejecting Bohemia: The politicization of ethnic guilt -- The quest for a blacker art -- Toward a Black Arts infrastructure -- Black Arts poet and essayist -- Black revolutionary playwright -- Kawaida: Totalizing the commitment -- The slave as master: Black Nationalism, Kawaida and the repression of women -- New-Ark and the emergence of pragmatic nationalism -- Pan-Africianism -- National Black Political Convention -- Ever faithful: Toward a religious Marxism -- The artist as Marxist / The Marxist as artist
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| Abstract
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Amiri Baraka, formerly known as LeRoi Jones, became known as one of the most militant, antiwhite black nationalists of the 1960s Black Power movement. An advocate of Black Cultural Nationalism, Baraka supported the rejection of all things white and western
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Baraka, Amiri,1934-2014-- Political and social views
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Baraka, Amiri,1934-2014-- Criticism and interpretation
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Politics and literature-- United States-- History-- 20th century
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African Americans-- Intellectual life-- 20th century
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African Americans-- Politics and government
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Blacks-- Politics and government
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African Americans in literature
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Blacks-- Intellectual life
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Blacks in literature
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| Dewey Classification
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818/.5409
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| LC Classification
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PS3552.A583Z93 2001
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