Background
Baraka, Amiri was born on October 7, 1934 in Newark, New Jersey, United States. Son of Coyette Leroy and Anna Lois (Russ) Jones.
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"Much of the novel is an expression of the intellectual and moral lost motion of the age...the special agony of the American Negro." --New York Times Book Review "A fevered and impressionistic riff on the struggles of blacks in the urban North and rural South, as told through the prism of The Inferno....Other writers addressed race more directly, but for all its linguistic slipperiness, Baraka's language conveys the feelings of fear, violation, and fury with a surprising potency. A pungent and lyrical portrait of mid-'60s black protest." --Kirkus Reviews With a new introduction by Woodie King Jr. This 1965 novel is a remarkable narrative of childhood and youth, structured on the themes of Dante's Inferno: violence, incontinence, fraud, treachery. With a poet's skill Baraka creates the atmosphere of hell, and with dramatic power he reconstructs the brutality of the black slums of Newark, a small Southern town, and New York City. The episodes contained within the novel represent both states of mind and states of the soul--lyrical, fragmentary, and allusive.
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Baraka, Amiri was born on October 7, 1934 in Newark, New Jersey, United States. Son of Coyette Leroy and Anna Lois (Russ) Jones.
Bachelor, Howard U., 1954; Master of Arts, Columbia University Master of Arts, New School Social Research Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Malcolm X College, Chicago, 1972.
Instructor, New School Social Research, New York City, 1961-1964;
founder, director, Black Arts Repertory Theatre, New York City, 1964-1966;
director, Spirit House, Newark, 1966-1972;
assistant professor African Studies, State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1980-1983;
associate professor African Studies, State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1983-1985;
professor African Studies, State University of New York, Stony Brook, since 1985. Visiting professor U. Buffalo, 1964, Columbia University, 1964, 66-67, San Francisco State University, 1967, Yale University, 1977-1978, George Washington University, 1978-1979, Rutgers University, 1988. Founder, editor Yugen Magazine and Totem Press, New York City, 1958.
Co-editor Floating Bar Magazine, 1961-1963. Past editor Cricket magazine. Publication director Jihad Press, Peoples War Publs.
Editor The Black Nation. Coordinator creativity workshops Black Power Conference, 1968. Chairman Committee for Unified Newark, 1968-1975.
Chairman, founder Congress of African People.
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Organizer National Black Pol. Convention, 1972. Served with United States Air Force, 1954-1957. Member Black Academy Arts and Letters, Political Prisoners Relief Fund, African Liberation Day Commission, All African Games, Pan African Federation, National.Black Political Assembly (secretary general, co-governor), National Black United Front, Congress African People (co-founder, chairman), Black Writers' Union, League Revolutionary Struggle, United Brothers (Newark), Newark Writers Collective.
Married Hettie Roberta Cohen, October 13, 1958 (divorced August 1965). Children: Kellie Elisabeth, Lisa Victoria Chapman. Married Sylvia Robinson (Bibi Amina Baraka), August 1966.
Children: Obalaji Malik Ali, Ras Jua Al Aziz, Shani Isis, Amiri Seku, Ahi Mwenge. Stepchildren: Kellie, Lisa, Dominique.