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A nation within a nation : Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) and Black power politics /

Poet and playwright Amiri Baraka is best known as one of the African American writers who helped ignite the Black Arts Movement. This book examines Baraka's cultural approach to Black Power politics and explores his role in the phenomenal spread of black nationalism in the urban centers of late...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Woodard, Komozi
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, ©1999.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. I Rise
  • 1. Groundwork: The Impact of Fidel Castro, Patrice Lumumba, Robert F. Williams, and Malcolm X on Amiri Baraka and the Black Arts Movement
  • 2. Black Fire: Imamu Amiri Baraka and the Newark Uprising
  • 3. The Ballot or the Bullet? The Politics of Cultural Nationalism in Newark
  • 4. The Modernization of Cultural Nationalism: The Black and Puerto Rican Convention and the Election of Newark's First Black Mayor
  • pt. II Zenith and Decline
  • 5. It's Nation Time: Building a National Black Political Community
  • 6. Hard Facts: Kawaida Towers and the Dilemma of Cultural Nationalism in Black America
  • Conclusion: Winter in America.