Interview with Amiri Baraka

A collection of interviews with Amiri Baraka conducted for Eyes on the Prize II.
 The book focuses on Malcolm X, the Black Arts Movement, the Black Liberation Movement, and the National Black Political Convention held in Gary, Indiana.

 Amiri Baraka (formerly LeRoi Everett Jones) Profile
 1934.10.7 - 2014.1.9
 Born in Newark, New Jersey. Poet, writer, thinker, social activist
 Privately learn piano, drums, and trumpet. Studied philosophy and religion at Howard University, Columbia University, etc. In the early 1960s, he was widely recognized for his poetry, screenplays, and jazz criticism, and in 1963, he published the first jazz research book by a black author, ``Blues People~Negro Music in White America.'' Publication. In 1965, he published a collection of criticisms, ``HOME'' (Japanese title: ``Baseji''), and in 1967, a collection of jazz criticisms, ``Black Music'' (Japanese title: ``Black Music''). Since 1980, he has been teaching at the State University of New York. In 2008, he won the PEN Open Book Award for Tales of the Out and the Gone. Baraka's career spans more than 50 years, and his themes range from black liberation to white racism. Baraka's plays, poems, and essays constitute the defining texts of African American culture, and he has also published books on Beatonics.
 BlackMass Publishing, founded in 2019, is a New York-based collective and independent press that promotes works by black artists and "expresses" them through "publishing activities" such as zines. . BlackMass Publishing is interested in fostering community and fostering conversation through visual language, focusing on Blackness, its effects, and impact through representation in images and text.
 BlackMass Publishing publications include Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture (New York), RAW Material Company (Dakar), Center For Book Arts (Art Museum, New York), Thomas J. Watson Library, New York Public Library, New York Langston Hughes It is housed in permanent book collections such as the Library, The Evergreen State University.
 Publisher: BlackMass Publishing
 Publication year: 2024
 Number of pages pages: 48
 Size: 215x 140mm
 Format: Softcover
 Language: English
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 Condition: New