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African-American writer (1934–2014)
Also known as: Everett LeRoi Jones, Everett LeRoy Jones, Imamu Amear Baraka, Imamu Amiri Baraka, Imamu Baraka, LeRoi Jones
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- Larry Neal1937–1981ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yet
Black Arts Movement theorist and poet whose politically charged, jazz-inflected work shares Baraka's aesthetic program. (AI reason)
Sonia Sanchez1934–ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetRevolutionary Black Arts poetry with experimental typography and performative, militant voice. (AI reason)
Nikki Giovanni1943–2024ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetBlack Arts-era poems blending political urgency with vernacular directness. (AI reason)
Haki R. Madhubuti1942–ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetFiery, rhythmic Black nationalist poetry and essays rooted in the Black Arts Movement. (AI reason)
- Ed Bullins1935–2021ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yet
Confrontational Black theater dramatizing urban Black life, akin to Dutchman. (AI reason)
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Gwendolyn Brooks1917–2000ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetLater work engages Black Arts politics with formally sharp, socially rooted poetry. (AI reason)
Allen Ginsberg1926–1997ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetBeat poetry of jazz-driven, incantatory free verse and social protest, like Baraka's early work. (AI reason)
Ishmael Reed1938–ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetSatirical, experimental Black writing fusing music, myth and cultural critique. (AI reason)
- Jayne Cortez1934–2012ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yet
Jazz-performance poetry with surreal, politically radical imagery. (AI reason)
James Baldwin1924–1987ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetIncisive essays and drama on race, American identity and Black cultural experience. (AI reason)
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- The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition
- The United States in Literature -- The Glass Menagerie Edition
- The United States in Literature -- All My Sons Edition (1973)
- Blues people (1963)
- Dutchman and The slave