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LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka) (Author)

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Paperback: 250 pages
Publisher: Akashic Books (Jan 1 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1933354674
ISBN-13: 978-1933354675
Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 13.2 x 2.3 cm
Shipping Weight: 227 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #820,717 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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“Jones/Baraka usually speaks as a Negro—and always as an American. He is eloquent, he is bold. He demands rights—not conditional favors.”—The New York Times Book Review

In 2007, Akashic Books ushered Amiri Baraka back into the forefront of America’s literary consciousness with the short story collection Tales of the Out & the Gone. This reissue features a highly provocative and profoundly insightful collection of 1960s social and political essays.

LeRoi Jones (now known as Amiri Baraka) is the author of numerous books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. He was named Poet Laureate of New Jersey by the New Jersey Commission on Humanities, from 2002–2004. His most recent book, Tales of the Out & the Gone (Akashic Books, 2007), was a New York Times Editors’ Choice. He lives in Newark, New Jersey.

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LeRoi Jones (now known as Amiri Baraka) is the author of numerous books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. He was named Poet Laureate of New Jersey by the N.J. Commission on Humanities, from 2002-2004. His last two books of poetry, Somebody Blew Up America & Other Poems and Un Poco Low Coup received tremendous critical acclaim.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A classic text of the civil rights-black power era!, May 6 1999

By kwoodard@mail.slc.edu, Komozi Woodard, author... - Published on Amazon.com

This review is from: Home: Social Essays (Paperback)

Home is essential reading for any serious student of the 1960s, particularly the Black Revolt. Standing next to such classics as The Autobiography of Malcolm X and Soul on Ice, it is one of the best accounts of the Black search for identity and liberation. Here we see Baraka's political evolution. The essays are arranged chronologically, tracing his development from "Cuba Libre," an evocative account of his first experience with the Cuban Revolution, to his definition of the legacy of the fallen leader, Malcolm X. No study of the Black Revolt of the 1960s is complete without a reading of "Home," written by one of the founders of the Black Arts Movement.

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