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<p>Amiri Baraka, formerly known as LeRoi Jones, became known as one of the most militant, anti-white black nationalists of the 1960s Black Power movement. An advocate of Black Cultural Nationalism, Baraka supported the rejection of all things white and western. He helped found and direct the influential Black Arts movement which sought to move black writers away from western aesthetic sensibilities and toward a more complete embrace of the black world. Except perhaps for James Baldwin, no single

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Author

Jerry Gafio Watts, Jerry Watts

Publisher

New York University Press

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780814784556

Category

biography

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Political Science, Science

Updated

2026-03-25