Black arts; an anthology of Black creations. / Edited by Ahmed Alhamisi and Harun Kofi Wangara. With an introduction by Keorapetse Kgositsile.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alhamisi, Ahmed Akinwole, editor.

Contributor:

Wangara, Harun Kofi, editor.

Kgositsile, Keorapetse, writer of introduction.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Literary collections.

African Americans.

Arts, Black.

American literature--African American authors.

Black Arts movement--Literary collections.

Black Arts movement.

American literature--African American authors--20th century.

American literature.

African American arts--20th century.

African American arts.

Arts, Black--20th century.

African Americans--Intellectual life--20th century.

African Americans--Intellectual life.

Genre:

Literary collections.

Literature.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

158 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

Detroit, Distributed by Broadside Press.

Place of Publication:

Detroit, Black Arts Publications, 1969.

Contents:

Soulfiction. Natural black beauty / Joe Goncalves; Sidi Ahmed Baba: Portrait of a Black Intellectual / Harun Kofi Wangara; The Crisis in Black Culture / Askia Muhammad Toure'; Black Music: New Black Revolutionary Art / Milford Graves

The Black Experience. You Gonna Let Me Take You Out Tonight, Baby? / Ed Bullins; The Monster / Ronald Milner; The Contraband / S. E. Anderson; Love Song for Willa Mae / C. H. Fuller

African Soul. Sculpture / Ahmed Alhamisi; Illustrations / Tom Feelings; Drawings / Omar Lama; Graphics / James Lee; Fashions / Modell Cheatham; Photographs / Roy Lewis.

Spirits. The Tide Inside, It Rages; The Memorial Position; In Finality Where To Go Is What To Do / Lindsay Barrett ; Introduction: Statement on Black Arts; But He Was Cool; History of The Poet as a Whore / Don L. Lee ; The Heart of the Black Ghetto / Eugene Perkins ; Black Art Spirits / Alicia Johnson ; A Folk Fabel / Johari Amini (Jewel Latimore) ; Portrait of a White Nigger; You Name It No. 2; For negroes / Carolyn Rodgers ; Sacrificial Ritual; O God; Mulungu / Ahmed Alhamisi ; To My Contemporaries in the Great American Universities / Elton Hill-Abu Ishak ; The Leaders; The Intellectuals / Dudley Randall ; Woman; Poem / Gloria House ; For Me Who Don't Read Classics / Malaika Ayo Wangara ; Study Peace / Ameer Baraka (LeRoi Jones) ; Peace / Larry Miller ; The True Import of Present Dialogue Black Vs. Negro / Nikki Giovanni ; Amandla! (Power!): Statement on Black Arts; For Leroi Jones, April, 1965; My Name is Africa; New Dawn / Keorapetse Kgositsile ; The Elmination of the Blues / S. E. Anderson ; A Father Tell His Son About The Statue of Liberty / Bobb Hamilton ; Black Writing: A Statement; One Spark Can Light a Prairie Fire / Larry Neal ; Some Hop-Scotching; "Black Power" / Edward S. Spriggs ; Orange Soda & Chocolate Kup Kaes / Joseph Bevans Bush ; The Second Plane; Light / Norman Jordan ; For Black Poets Who Think of Suicide / Etheridge Knight ; Poem for My Children; Poem / Sonia Sanchez ; Don't You Forget It; Poem / James Stewart ; The Sound of Allah's Horn / Askia Muhammad Toure' ; Al Fitnah Muhajir; Did You Vote Nigger / Marvin X ; Islam & Black Art: An Interview with Ameer Baraka (LeRoi Jones) / By Marvin X and Faruk'.

Notes:

Cover design by Ahmedu. Cover drawing by Omar Lama. Cover photos. by James Wilson.

Local Notes:

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

Banks Collection copy is "First Edition Second Printing".

OCLC:

109268