The LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka reader

The beat period (1957-1962). from Preface to a twenty volume suicide note. Preface to a twenty volume suicide note ; Hymn for Lanie Poo ; In memory of radio ; Look for you yesterday, here you come today ; Notes for a speech ; from New American poetry. How you sound??

The transitional period (1963-1965). from Blues people. African slaves, American slaves : their music

Swing : from the verb to noun

from The dead lecturer. A contract, for the destruction and rebuilding of Paterson ; An agony, as now ; A poem for Willie Best ; Short speech to my friends ; The politics of rich painters ; Rhythm & blues ; Crow Jane. For crow Jane, mama death ; Crow Jane's manner ; Crow Jane in high society ; Crow Jane the crook ; The dead lady canonized

I substitute for the dead lecturer ; Black Dada Nihilismus ; Political poem ; The liar

Dutchman

from The system of Dante's hell. The heretics.

The black nationalist period (1965-1974). from Home : social essays. Cuba libre ; The legacy of Malcolm X, and the coming of the black nation

State/meant

from Tales. The screamers ; Words

from Black music. Jazz and the white critic ; The changing same (R&B and new black music)

from Black magic. A poem some people will have to understand ; Citizen Cain ; Letter to E. Franklin Frazier ; Leadbelly gives an autograph ; Numbers, letters ; Western front ; T.T. Jackson sings ; Return of the native ; A poem for black hearts ; SOS ; Black art ; Poems for halfwhite college students ; W.W. ; Ka 'Ba ; The world is full of remarkable things ; Leroy ; Black people!

from Four black revolutionary plays. Great goodness of life

from It's nation time. It's nation time

Afrikan revolution.

The third world Marxist period (1974-) from Hard facts. When we'll worship Jesus ; A new reality is better than a new movie! ; The dictatorship of the proletariat ; Das Kapital ; A poem for deep thinkers

from Poetry for the advanced. Pres spoke in a language ; Dope ; Am/trak ; What was the relationship of the Lone Ranger to the means of production?

In the tradition

from Daggers and javelins. The revolutionary tradition in Afro-American literature ; Aimé Césaire ; Ngugi wa thiongo

from The autobiography of LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka. Error farce ; The black arts (Harlem. politics, search for a new life)

from The music : reflections on jazz and blues. Primitive world : an anti-nuclear jazz musical ; Jimmy! ; Black people & Jesse Jackson II ; Why's/wise. Wise 1 ; Wise 2 ; Wise 3 ; Wise 4 ; Wise 5 ; Wise 6 ; Wise 7 ; Wise 8 ; Wise 9 ; Wise 10 ; Rough hand dreamers (Wise 11) ; A farmer come to the city (Wise 12) ; Wise 13

New and previously unpublished works. The black arts movement

Malcolm as ideology

Robert Williams : an introduction

Sweet Lorraine

Portrait of the lion : Willie "the lion" Smith, a script for the New-Arkestra

Black reconstruction : Du Bois and the U.S. struggle for democracy and socialism

Allah mean everything! pt. one

Margaret Walker

Understanding readiness

Sassy was definitely not the Avon lady

Mumia, "lynch law" and imperialism The great Max Roach

My man came by the crib the other day

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