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The Moderns: An Anthology of New Writing in America

Book by Leroi Jones, Imamu Amiri Baraka; Corinth Books, 1963

Subjects:

American Literature--20th Century

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Edited with an introduction by LEROI JONES CORINTH BOOKS, INC. NEW YORK, 1963 Copyright 1963 by LeRoi Jones Library of Congress Catalog Card...permission of the author. LEROI JONES. "Hypocrite s " and "Thieves...
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The Trembling Lamb

Book by Antonin Artaud, Carl Solomon, Bernard Fretchman, Leroi Jones, John Fles; Phoenix Bookshop, 1959

Subjects:

Gogh, Vincent Van--1853-1890

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Carl Solomon THE SYSTEM OF DANTES INFERNO by LeRoi Jones editor: John Fles Dear Allen these last few days...tedious necessity. THE SYSTEM OF DANTES INFERNO by LeRoi Jones NEUTRALS: The Vestibule But Dantes hell is heaven...
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Blues People: Negro Music in White America

Book by LeRoi Jones; William Morrow, 1963

Subjects:

African Americans, African Americans--Music--History And Criticism, Blues (Music)--History And Criticism, Jazz--History And Criticism

Collections: Entire Library

...Negro Music in White America by LeRoi Jones / William Morrow and Company! / New York! / Copyright 1963 by LeRoi Jones Grateful acknowledgment is made...individual shouts. "Thats George Jones, down in Hartsville, shoutin like...
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To Raise, Destroy, and Create: The Poetry, Drama, and Fiction of Imamu Amiri Baraka (Le Roi Jones)

Book by Henry C. Lacey; Whitston Publishing, 1981

Subjects:

African Americans In Literature, Baraka, Imamu Amiri--1934---Criticism And Interpretation

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

A study of the works of Imamu Amiri Baraka written between 1960 and 1970. Baraka is represented as an example of black America searching for identity, purpose and direction. This search, examined by Lacey, is embodied by Baraka's achievements.
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Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note

Book by Le Roi Jones; Totem Press in Association with Corinth Books, 1961

Subjects:

Poetry

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Provincetown Review Copyright O 1961 LeRoi Jones Library of Congress Catalog Number...In association with TOTEM PRESS/LeROI JONES: EDWARD DORN, Hands up! $1...Mirror: Early Poems. $1.25 LeROI JONES, Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide...

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LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka and the Limits of Open Form

Journal article by Ben Lee; African American Review, Vol. 37, 2003

Subjects:

American poetry--African American authors, Baraka, Amiri--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Free verse--Criticism, interpretation, etc., New Criticism--Political aspects

Collections: Entire Library

LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka and the limits of open form...autobiography, Amiri Baraka--then called LeRoi Jones--remembers a moment in which his own fascinations...1979. Thus, for instance, though the young LeRoi Jones of this passage understands that people...
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LeRoi Jones, Larry Neal, and the Cricket: Jazz and Poets' Black Fire

Journal article by Christopher Funkhouser; African American Review, Vol. 37, 2003

Subjects:

African Americans--Music, Baraka, Amiri--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jazz music--Influence, Little magazines--History, Little magazines--Influence, The Cricket: Black Music in Evolution (Periodical)--History, The Cricket: Black Music in Evolution (Periodical)--Influence

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LeRoi Jones, Larry Neal, and the Cricket: Jazz and...mimeographed music magazine edited by LeRoi Jones, Larry Neal, and A. B. Spellman in 1968...Cricket 3: 20) LeRoi Jones and Larry Neal were forward-looking writers...
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"Hunting Is Not Those Heads": The Jones/Baraka Critic as Taxidermist

Journal article by Joseph Heithaus; African American Review, Vol. 37, 2003

Subjects:

American poetry--African American authors, Baraka, Amiri--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Entire Library

...understand the difference between what LeRoi Jones/Amiri Barakas homonyms are on the...was, in a way, a jail from which LeRoi Jones sprang). And in the fourteenth...Works Cited Baraka, Amid (LeRoi Jones). Home: Social Essays. New York...
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Politics, Process & (Jazz) Performance: Amiri Baraka's "It's Nation Time"

Journal article by Meta Duewa Jones; African American Review, Vol. 37, 2003

Subjects:

American poetry--African American authors, Baraka, Amiri--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jazz music--Influence, Poetry readings--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Entire Library

...LeRoi Jones, Amiri Baraka at that time...Records. B-457L, 1972. --. The LeRoi Jones / Amiri Baraka Reader. Ed. William...Within A Nation: Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) and Black Power Politics. Chapel...
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Baraka's Bohemian Blues

Journal article by John Gennari; African American Review, Vol. 37, 2003

Subjects:

American literature--African American authors, Baraka, Amiri--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Bohemianism--History, Jazz music--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jazz music--History, Musical criticism--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Musical criticism--History

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...later, in The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones, Baraka recounts the soul-searching...mainstream. From The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones and Hettie Joness memoir How I...Navigation, 1048, 1981); Baraka (LeRoi Jones) New York Art Quintet (Esp, 1004...

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Black Radical Enigma

Magazine article by Cedric Johnson; Monthly Review, Vol. 56, December 2004

Subjects:

A Nation within a Nation: Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) and Black Power Politics (Book)--Book reviews, Amiri Baraka: The Politics and Art of a Black Intellectual (Book)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews, Somebody Blew Up America and Other Poems (Book)--Book reviews, Taking It to the Streets: The Social Protest Theater of Luis Valdez and Amiri Baraka (Book)--Book reviews, The Essence of Reparations (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Entire Library

...Nation within a Nation: Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) and Black Power Politics (Chapel...of the most outstanding of them, LeRoi Jones, learned in such a personal way...decolonization. He was born Everett Leroy Jones to a lower middle-class family in...
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Interracial Intimacy: White-Black Dating, Marriage, and Adoption Are on the Rise. This Development, However, Is Being Met with Resistance-More Vocally by Blacks Than by Whites

Magazine article by Randall Kennedy; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 290, December 2002

Subjects:

Black-white relations, Interracial adoption--Analysis, Interracial dating--Analysis, Interracial marriage--Analysis, Racially mixed people

Collections: Entire Library

...example is the breakup of Everett LeRoi Jones (now known as Amiri Baraka) and Hettie Jones. LeRoi Jones was born of middle-class...African-American music. What made LeRoi Jones a celebrity, however, and what...
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Interracial Intimacy: White-Black Dating, Marriage, and Adoption Are on the Rise. This Development, However, Is Being Met with Resistance - More Vocally Bu Blacks Than by Whites

Magazine article by Randall Kennedy; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 290, December 2002

Subjects:

Interracial marriage

Collections: Entire Library

...example is the breakup of Everett LeRoi Jones (now known as Amiri Baraka) and Hettie Jones. LeRoi Jones was born of middleclass black...African-American music. What made LeRoi Jones a celebrity, however, and what...
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What Now? Developments, Encouraging and Otherwise

Magazine article by Michael Kelly; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 290, December 2002

Subjects:

Politicians--United States

Collections: Entire Library

...Kelly What can I do? Im not perfect, alas," bravely admitted the New Jersey poet laureate Amiri Baraka, a.k.a. LeRoi Jones, discussing the negative reaction to his brave new work, "Somebody Blew Up America," in which he bravely asked, "Who...
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The Greatest Story Never Told: Everyday America's Racial Harmony

Magazine article by Deroy Murdock; The American Enterprise, Vol. 9, November 1998

Subjects:

Progress--Media coverage, Race discrimination--Analysis, Race relations--Social aspects, Racism--Media coverage

Collections: Entire Library

...Baraka reads a poem to musical accompaniment. "Suppose you was so out, your murder was not a crime, says Baraka (formerly LeRoi Jones). "Suppose you are the usual suspect in any crime, even those committed against you?" Baraka then recites a string of...

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Amiri Baraka Hits a New Low; New Jersey's Hateful Poet Laureate

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, October 11, 2002

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Ill have to pass on this "honor" after reading it and learning the poet is Amiri Baraka (the poet formerly known as LeRoi Jones), one of Americas premier haters and anti-Semites. Mr. Baraka got into hot water recently after his poem, "Somebody...
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Silent Minority

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, March 25, 2003

Subjects:

Rice, Condoleezza

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Its a noxious, bilious, disgustingly sexist term and one of the worst things you could call a woman." Also known as LeRoi Jones and Imamu Amiri Baraka (or as Mr. Kane prefers, "New Jerseys lunatic laureate"), the black activist and poet pinned...
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`Comeback' for Actor Who Never Really Left

Newspaper article by Gary Arnold; The Washington Times, February 2, 1996

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...opposite Shirley Knight in the British-made film version of Leroi Jones controversial one-acter about racial animosity, "Dutchman...Festival in 1970: "Goin Down South," adapted from another Leroi Jones play, "The Slave." Producer John Calley thought it presentable...
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Playing to Diverse Society

Newspaper article by Gary Tischler; The Washington Times, March 9, 2000

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Company, an avant-garde cooperative group that produced experimental plays and political plays by playwrights such as LeRoi Jones. There Mr. Medrano, who was working on childrens theater, met his then-actress wife, Rebecca - and began dreaming...
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No Rhyme or Reason in Poetry Snafu

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, February 8, 2003

Subjects:

Bush, Laura, Whitman, Walt

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Shakespeare scholar Barbra Streisand, is the moral authority of New Jerseys taxpayer-salaried poet laureate, Amiri Baraka, aka LeRoi Jones, who declared, "The main task right now is stopping the war." Mr. Baraka, of course, will be eagerly awaiting his...

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Jones, Leroi

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

JONES, LEROI see Baraka, Amiri . ____________________ The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Copyright 2007, Columbia University Press. Licensed from Lernout Hauspie Speech Products N.V. All rights reserved.
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Baraka, Amiri

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...political activist, b. Newark, N.J., as LeRoi Jones, studied at Rutgers Univ., Howard...Selected Poems of Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones, 1961 1995 (1995), and Eulogies...The Autobiography of Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones (1984, rev. ed. 1997); C. Reilly...
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American Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Langston Hughes in the 1920s and 30s were succeeded by Richard Wright , Ralph Ellison , James Baldwin , and LeRoi Jones (later Amiri Baraka ) in the 1940s and 50s. Poetry after World War I was largely dominated by T. S. Eliot and...

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