I. A. Baraka

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Highly Influential Citations20
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Blues People: Negro Music in White America
"The path the slave took to 'citizenship' is what I want to look at. And I make my analogy through the slave citizen's music -- through the music that is most closely associated with him: blues and a…
The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones
The complete autobiography of a literary legend. Poet, dramatist, novelist, critic, teacher, and political activist Amiri Baraka, born LeRoi Jones, vividly recounts his crusading role in African…
Dutchman and The slave : two plays
Centered squarely on the Negro-white conflict, both Dutchman and The Slave are literally shocking plays--in ideas, in language, in honest anger. They illuminate as with a flash of lightning a deadly…
Raise Race Rays Raze: Essays Since 1965
The Leroi Jones\/Amiri Baraka Reader
Amiri Baraka - dramatist, poet, essayist, orator, and fiction writer - is one of the preeminent African-American literary figures of our time. The Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader provides the most…
The System of Dante's Hell
Black Fire : An Anthology of Afro-American Writing
Digging: The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music
Black magic: Sabotage, Target study, Black art : collected poetry, 1961-1967
Four Black revolutionary plays : all praises to the Black man
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