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Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baraka, Amiri, 1934-2014, author.

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Apollo editions ; A-147.

Apollo editions ; A-147

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans.

United States--Race relations.

United States.

Race relations.

Genre:

Essays.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (bookplate) (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

252 pages, 4 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : William Morrow & Co., Inc., 1966.

Contents:

1965. Home

1960. Cuba Libre

1961. Letter to Jules Feiffer

1962. Tokenism: 300 years for five cents; Black is a country; City of Harlem; Cold, hurt and sorrow (Streets of Despair); Street protest; Soul food; Myth of a Negro literature

1963. Brief reflections on two hot shots; A dark bag; What does nonviolence mean?; The Dempsey-Liston fight; Black writing; Expressive language

1964. Hunting is not those heads on the wall; LeRoi Jones talking; Last day of the American empire (Including some instructions for Black people); The revolutionary theatre

1965. American sexual reference: Black male; Blackhope; The legacy of Malcolm X, and the coming of the Black nation

State/meant.

Notes:

"These essays are placed chronologically (from 1960 to 1965), to show just how my mind and my place in America have changed since the 'Cuba Libre' essay."

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy has bookplate and home and office telephone numbers of Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy has article from Book World laid in.

OCLC:

2360266