Amiri Baraka: The Politics and Art of a Black Intellectual

by Jerry G. Watts

Amiri Baraka, formerly known as LeRoi Jones, became known as one of the most militant, anti-white black nationalists of the 1960s Black Power movement. An advocate of Black Cultural Nationalism, Baraka supported the rejection of all things white and western. He helped found and direct the influential Black Arts movement which sought to move black writers away from western aesthetic sensibilities and toward a more complete embrace of the black world...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814793738
• ISBN13: 9780814793732
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 592 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.3"