Home: Social Essays

(Paperback)

Publishing Details

Classifications

Physical Properties

Description

A seminal re-issue featuring a highly provocative and profoundly insightful collection of 1960s social and political essays. In many ways, this is the ideological autobiography of LeRoi Jones/ Amiri Baraka as well as a record of his changing picture of America during this critical and turbulent period in American history.

Reviews

Baraka usually speaks as a Negro--and always as an American. He is eloquent, his is bold. He demands rights--not conditional favors. --New York Times Book Review This is to date Baraka's most definitive, hence best work, on how it feels to be Black in a world dominated by white practicalities. --The Liberator

Author Bio

LeRoi Jones (now known as Amiri Baraka) is the author of numerous books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. He was named Poet Laureate of New Jersey by the N.J. Commission on Humanities, from 2002-2004. His last two books of poetry, Somebody Blew Up America & Other Poems and Un Poco Low Coup received tremendous critical acclaim.