Background
Baraka, Imamu Amiri was born on October 7, 1934 in Newark. 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 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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Contains essays on Miles Davis, Pharaoh Sanders, Woody Shaw, Jay Hoggard, Bob Neloms, Cecil McBee, Craig Harris, Gil Scott Heron, Chico Freeman Dennis Moorman, and other contemporary musicians as well as reflections on soul, modern trends, and other aspects of the history of jazz and blues. Also included are poems on music and musicians by both Amina and Amiri Baraka and a jazz musical by Amiri.
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Baraka, Imamu Amiri was born on October 7, 1934 in Newark. Son of Coyette Leroy and Anna Lois (Russ) Jones.
Bachelor, Howard University, 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, 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, 1983-1985, professor emeritus African Studies, since 1985. Visiting professor University 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 Publications.
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.