A nation within a nation : Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) and Black power politics /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Woodard, Komozi (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, [1999]
Series:Civil rights and social justice.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • pt. I. Rise. 1. Groundwork: The Impact of Fidel Castro, Patrice Lumumba, Robert F. Williams, and Malcolm X on Amiri Baraka and the Black Arts Movement
  • 2. Black Fire: Imamu Amiri Baraka and the Newark Uprising
  • 3. The Ballot or the Bullet? The Politics of Cultural Nationalism in Newark
  • 4. The Modernization of Cultural Nationalism: The Black and Puerto Rican Convention and the Election of Newark's First Black Mayor
  • pt. II. Zenith and Decline
  • 5. It's Nation Time: Building a National Black Political Community
  • 6. Hard Facts: Kawaida Towers and the Dilemma of Cultural Nationalism in Black America
  • Conclusion: Winter in America.