SOS-calling all Black people: a Black arts movement reader / edited by John H. Bracey Jr., Sonia Sanchez, and James Smethurst.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bracey, John H., Jr., 1941-2023, editor.

Sanchez, Sonia, 1934- editor.

Smethurst, James Edward, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--African American authors.

American literature.

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

African Americans.

Black Arts movement.

Black nationalism--United States--History--20th century.

Black nationalism.

African Americans in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (722 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : University of Massachusetts Press, 2014.

Summary:

This volume brings together a broad range of key writings from the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s, among the most significant cultural movements in American history.

Contents:

Front Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Editors' Introduction

The Black Arts Movement

Section I. Theory/Criticism

Introduction to Theory/Criticism

Poetry and Black Liberation: Freedom's Furious Passions

DA-DUM-DUN: A BAM Triumvirate of Conch/Us/Nest: Miles Davis, Henry Dumas &amp

Katherine Dunham in East St. Louis, Illinois

1. Politics and Culture

The Harlem Black Arts Theater-New Dialogue with the Lost Black Generation

Symposium: The Measure and the Meaning of Sixties

Black Cultural Nationalism

Broadside Press: A Personal Chronicle

On the Boycott

The Development of the Black Revolutionary Artist

Needed: A New Image

Keep on Pushin': Rhythm &amp

Blues as a Weapon

2. Gender

Preface to the Black Woman

The Negro Woman in American Literature

Lorraine Hansberry: On Time!

Who Will Revere the Black Woman?

Black Men vs. Black Women

New Fashions for Afro-American Women

Queens of the Universe

3. Aesthetics/Poetics

The Changing Same (R&amp

B and New Black Music)

If Black English Isn't a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is?

As Crinkly as Yours

Tripping with Black Writing

Towards a Black Aesthetic

Cultural Strangulation: Black Literature and the White Aesthetic

The Question of Form and Judgement in Contemporary Black American Poetry: 1962-1977

What Good is the Word without the Wisdom? Or "English Ain't Relevant"

Excerpts from Black World Interview

Black Poetry-Where It's At

Section II. Statements of Purpose: Groups and Journals

Introduction to the Documents

Final Communique of the Asian-African Conference

October 1966 Black Panther Party Platform and Program

Editor's Notes

The History of SUDAN (in Texas?)

Statement of Purpose and Program.

Statement of Aims and What Africa Means to Americans

Food for Thought

"What Do the Muslims Want?"

Statement of Basic Aims and Objectives: Culture

OBAC [Organization of Black American Culture]

Statement of Purpose

To the Peoples of Afroamerica, Africa, and to all the Peoples of the World

By-Laws

A Statement of Purpose

Towards Revolutionary Action Movement Manifesto

Foreword to Issue 1.1

Resolutions

Section III. Poetry

The Poetry of BAM: Meditation, Critique, Praise

Storm Coming: Memoir and History (Reminiscence)

1. Consciousness

Upon Being Black One Friday Night in July

What Shall We Tell My Children Who Are Black

Black People!

The Life of Lincoln West

Black Jam for Dr. Negro

Sister Brother

A Father Tells his Son about the Statue of Liberty

Jitterbugging in the Streets

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

Niggers R Scared of Revolution

But He Was Cool

Personal Jihad

Barbequed Cong: Or We Laid My Lai Low

How I Got Ovah

Summary

Tomorrow the Heroes

"Black Power!"

Twelve Gates

Cry Freedom

2. Malcolm

Eulogy for Malcolm X

A Poem for Black Hearts

Malcolm X

Portrait of Malcolm X

That Old Time Religion

Malcolm X-An Autobiography

Malcolm

For Malcolm Who Walks in the Eyes of our Children

For Malcolm X

A Plea for the Politic Man

3. Coltrane and Jazz

How Long Has This Trane Been Gone

Legacy: In Memory of 'Trane

Tribute to Duke

Elvin Jones Gretsch Freak

Don't Cry, Scream

The Coming of John

Don't Say Goodbye to the Pork-Pie Hat

Conversions

Transcendental Blues

Written for Love of an Ascension-Coltrane

A/Coltrane/Poem

On Seeing Pharaoh Sanders Blowing

Did John's Music Kill Him?

4. Africa

African Night Suite

The Painted Lady

Africa I

Africa II

Lumumba Lives Lumumba Lives!!.

My Name is Afrika

Ancestors

I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra

Earth

5. Women

For Gwendolyn Brooks-A Whole &amp

Beautiful Spirit

I Am a Black Woman

Woman Poem

Woman

If You Saw a Negro Lady

Naturally

Cadence

Blackwoman

The Last M.F.

6. Heritage

Promenade

Lynch Fragment

Urban Dream

Return to English Turn

The Music

The Idea of Ancestry

Ballad of Birmingham

Rivers of Bones and Flesh and Blood

Sunset Beach/L.A.

7. Songs

Say It Loud-I'm Black and I'm Proud

Afro Blue

What's Goin' On

Keep on Pushin'

To Be Young, Gifted, and Black

War

Section IV. Drama

The Kuumba Theatre: A Radical Idea Comes to Life

Living in the Black Arts Movement

A Black Mass

Clara's Ole Man

Prayer Meeting or, the First Militant Preacher

Wine in the Wilderness

The Suicide

Flowers for the Trashman

The Monster

The Bronx Is Next

Section V. Fiction/Narrative

Black Arts Fiction: An Introduction

The Organizer's Wife

Harlem

A Love Song for Seven Little Boys Called

Sam

Sonny's Seasons

Reena

A Happening in Barbados

Excerpt from the Bluest Eye

Cab Calloway Stands in for the Moon

Frankie Mae

The King Alfred Plan

Afterwords

The Hip Hop Vision: Password: Nation Conscious Rap

Coming from a Black Thing: Remembering the Black Arts Movement

Learning from the 60s

Selected Bibliography

Back Cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

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ISBN:

1-61376-276-3

OCLC:

933516711