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• In Search of Our Warrior Mothers

  Women Dramatists of the Black Arts Movement

  Forsgren, La Donna L.,

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  "The Black Arts Movement (1965-76) consisted of artists across the United States deeply concerned with the relationship between politics and the black aesthetic. In Search of Our Warrior Mothers examines the ways in which black women playwrights in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Clarity as Concept

  a Poet's Perspective : a Collection of Essays

  Evans, Mari, 1923-

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  "Clarity as Concept: A Poet's Perspective" is Mari Evans' first full-length book of essays. She shares words from the heart about literature, politics, family, and culture. This collection of critical essays and commentary is presented in the same…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Resistance, Insurgence and Identity

  the Art of Mari Evans, Nelson Stevens and the Black Arts Movement

  Douglas, Robert L.

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  Resistance, Insurgence and Identity: The Art of Mari Evans, Nelson Stevens and the Black Arts Movement is an inquiry into how art was used to express the discontent and aspirations of Black America during the turbulent sixties and seventies.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hey Black Child

  Perkins, Useni Eugene

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  Useni Eugene Perkins was a distinguished poet, playwright, and youth worker. He was the author of Harvesting New Generations: The Positive Development of Black Youth ; Home is a Dirty Street: The Social Oppression of Black Children ; and Black Fairy…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Amiri Baraka and the Congress of African People

  History and Memory

  Simanga, Michael, 1954- ,

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  "The Congress of African People (CAP) was an important Black Power organization formed in 1970 and led by the activist poet Amiri Baraka. It made significant contributions to the Black Liberation Movement throughout the 70s as a leading organization…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Black Theatre

  the Making of a Movement

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  Recaptures the birth of a new theatre from the Civil Rights activism of the 1950's, '60s, and '70s. Presents an encyclopedia of the leading figures, institutions and events. Clips from historic productions include the first all-black production of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Black Music

  Baraka, Amiri, 1934-2014

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  n the essay 'Jazz and the White Critic' LeRoi Jones observes: 'Most jazz critics have been white Americans, but most important jazz musicians have not been.' In Black Music , his perceptive and provocative collection of articles, reviews, profiles,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Amiri Baraka

  the Politics and Art of a Black Intellectual

  Watts, Jerry Gafio

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  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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Brick City Vanguard

  Amiri Baraka, Black Music, Black Modernity

  Smethurst, James Edward,

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  Amiri Baraka is unquestionably the most recognized leader of the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s, and one of the key literary and cultural figures of the postwar United States. While Baraka's political and aesthetic stances changed…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks

  Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-2000

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  Discover the most enduring works of the legendary poet and first black author to win a Pulitzer Prize--now in one collectible volume "If you wanted a poem," wrote Gwendolyn Brooks, "you only had to look out of a window. There was material always,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Nikki Giovanni

  a Literary Biography

  Fowler, Virginia C., 1948-

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  This book offers a comprehensive examination of the life and work of Nikki Giovanni, one of the most prolific and well-known poets to emerge during the Black Arts Movement. Nikki Giovanni: A Literary Biography focuses on one of the most widely read…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Art of Work

  the Art and Life of Haki R. Madhubuti

  Hooper, Lita

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  This comprehensive analysis of the life and work of Haki R. Madhubuti demonstrates why he is such a pivotal figure in black literature. Both his life experiences and literary contributions are explored, highlighting his roles as political activist.

• Furious Flower

  African American Poetry From the Black Arts Movement to the Present

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  Furious Flower: African-American Poetry from the Black Arts Movement to the Present Edited by Joanne V. Gabbin The Furious Flower Conference of 1994 represented the largest gathering of African American writers at one event in nearly thirty years.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• SOS - Calling All Black People

  a Black Arts Movement Reader

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  This volume brings together a broad range of key writings from the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s, among the most significant cultural movements in American history. The aesthetic counterpart of the Black Power movement, it burst onto…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• "After Mecca"

  Women Poets and the Black Arts Movement

  Clarke, Cheryl, 1947-

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  The politics and music of the sixties and early seventies have been the subject of scholarship for many years, but it is only very recently that attention has turned to the cultural production of African American poets. In "After Mecca," Cheryl…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Caribbean Artists Movement 1966-1972

  a Literary & Cultural History

  Walmsley, Anne

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• The Black Arts Movement

  Literary Nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s

  Smethurst, James Edward

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  Emerging from a matrix of Old Left, black nationalist, and bohemian ideologies and institutions, African American artists and intellectuals in the 1960s coalesced to form the Black Arts Movement, the cultural wing of the Black Power Movement. In…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I'm Black When I'm Singing, I'm Blue When I Ain't and Other Plays

  Sanchez, Sonia, 1934-

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  Sonia Sanchez is a prolific, award-winning poet and one of the most prominent writers in the Black Arts movement. This collection brings her plays together in one volume for the first time. Like her poetry, Sanchez's plays voice her critique of the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Black Post-blackness

  the Black Arts Movement and Twenty-first-century Aesthetics

  Crawford, Margo Natalie, 1969-

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  A 2008 cover of The New Yorker featured a much-discussed Black Power parody of Michelle and Barack Obama. The image put a spotlight on how easy it is to flatten the Black Power movement as we imagine new types of blackness. Margo Natalie Crawford…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sistuhs in the Struggle

  An Oral History of Black Arts Movement Theater and Performance

  Forsgren, La Donna L.,

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  The first oral history to fully explore the contributions of black women intellectuals to the Black Arts Movement, Sistuhs in the Struggle reclaims a vital yet under-researched chapter in African American, women's, and theater history. This…Read moreRead more of this annotation