also known as
LeRoi Jones
critic
dramatists
novelists
poet
His major fields of study were philosophy and religion. Baraka visited Cuba in July 1960 with a Fair Play for Cuba Committee delegation and reported his impressions in his essay Cuba libre.Around 1974, Baraka distanced himself from Black nationalism and became a Marxist and a supporter of third-world liberation movements.
Education
Works
drama
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Dutchman and The Slave, 1964
novel
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The System of Dante's Hell, 1965
play
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A Black Mass, 1966
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Four Black Revolutionary Plays, 1969
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The Motion of History and Other Plays, 1978
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Wise, Why’s Y’s, 1995
poem
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Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note, 1961
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Black Magic, 1969
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It's Nation Time, 1970
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Hard Facts, 1975
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Funk Lore: New Poems, 1996.