Nation Within a Nation Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) and Black Power Politics

Name: Nation Within a Nation Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) and Black Power Politics
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ISBN: 9780807847619

ISBN-10: 0807847615

ISBN-13: 9780807847619

Edition: 1999

Authors: Komozi Woodard

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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-twentieth-century America, including his part in the election of black public officials, his leadership in the Modern Black Convention Movement, and his work in housing and community development. Komozi Woodard traces Baraka's transformation from poet to political activist, as the rise of the Black Arts Movement pulled him from political obscurity in the Beat circles of Greenwich Village, swept him…

Book details

List price: $42.50
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 2/22/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.342

Komozi Woodard is Professor of American History, Public Policy, and Africana Studies at Sarah Lawrence College and author of A Nation within a Nation: Amiri Baraka and Black Power Politics .



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Rise



Groundwork: The Impact of Fidel Castro, Patrice Lumumba, Robert F. Williams, and Malcolm X on Amiri Baraka and the Black Arts Movement



Black Fire: Imamu Amiri Baraka and the Newark Uprising



The Ballot or the Bullet? The Politics of Cultural Nationalism in Newark



The Modernization of Cultural Nationalism: The Black and Puerto Rican Convention and the Election of Newark's First Black Mayor



Zenith and Decline



It's Nation Time: Building a National Black Political Community



Hard Facts: Kawaida Towers and the Dilemma of Cultural Nationalism in Black America Conclusion: Winter in America


Notes


Bibliography


Index


Illustrations


Baraka filming Black Spring


Baraka after release from prison in 1968


"Stop Killer Cops" campaign booklet


Baraka, leader of the Congress of African People


Baba Mshauri with Ras Baraka and Saidi Komozi


The Malaika, women of the Newark Congress of African People


Super Simba Boot Dancers


Baraka's cultural group, The Advanced Workers


Ras and Shani Baraka


Obalaji Baraka selling Unity and Struggle newspaper


Baraka with Kenneth Gibson, Dennis Westbrooks, and Albert Cleage


Baraka speaking at Newark City Hall


The Barakas at Kenneth Gibson's inauguration as mayor of Newark


Baraka at the founding meeting of the Congress of African People


FBI memorandum targeting Baraka in 1970


Newark demonstration against Portuguese attack on Guinea


The Barakas at African Liberation Day march


Baraka and Naibu Mchochezi meet with Tanzanian officials Malaika dance about women in the wars of African liberation


Baraka and Hoyt Fuller


Baraka organization's plan for the redevelopment of Newark's inner city


Baraka reading poetry


Baraka at the National Black Assembly in 1975


Amina Baraka and other New Jersey delegates at National Black Assembly