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Politics, process & (jazz) performance: Amiri Baraka's "It's Nation Time".

Publisher	African American Review
Publication	African American Review
Subject	Ethnic, cultural, racial issues/studies
Format	Magazine/Journal
ISSN	1062-4783
Issues per Year	4
Volume	37
Issue	2-3
Published	2003-06-22

Role	Type	Name
Person	n/a	Amiri Baraka
Author	n/a	Meta DuEwa Jones

Politics

In a recently published book, Amiri Baraka: The Politics and Art of a Black Intellectual, the scholar Jerry Watts invokes Baraka in iconic fashion. He prefaces the book with the following admonition:

   In the best of worlds, it would be unwise to call out the name
   Amiri Baraka in a crowded hall of black intellectuals. To bring
   up Baraka in a symposium on art and politics is to bring a
   conversation to a standstill. One of the most controversial
   Afro-American intellectuals of the last forty years, Baraka is
   admired, hated, feared, dismissed,...

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