Amiri Baraka: Home: Social Essays: Book Review.
His work sharpened in Home: Social Essays (1966) and fueled the drive for the Black Arts Repertory Theater School, one of New York City's cultural landmarks. He completed Arm Yourself or Harm Yourself (1967) and collaborated with Larry Neal on Black Fire: An Anthology of Afro-American Writing (1968).
A year earlier, he published Home: Social Essays. With Amina, Baraka returned to his native Newark, where they opened a theater and residence for artists called the Spirit House. He also headed to Los Angeles to meet with scholar and activist Ron Karenga (or Maulana Karenga), founder of the Kwanzaa holiday, which aims to reconnect black Americans to their African heritage.
Imamu Amiri Baraka (1966). “Home: Social Essays”, New York: Morrow.
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Essays of the 1960s by a prominent African American voice who “demands rights—not conditional favors” (The New York Times Book Review).Amiri Baraka, also known as LeRoi Jones, was known not only as a poet, playwright, and founder of the Black Arts movement, but also as one of the most provocative voices of the civil rights era and beyond.
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The entries of Amiri Baraka's Home: Social Essays (1966) chronicle the writer's rapidly emerging nationalistic posture. Including a number of. Reference Entry. 581 words. Subjects: Literary Studies (African American Literature); History.