Keeping up with the Joneses: the naming of racial identities in the autobiographical writings of LeRoi Jones/ Amiri Baraka, Hettie Jones, and Lisa Jones.
| Publisher | West Chester University |
| Publication | College Literature |
| Subject | Education |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 0093-3139 |
| Issues per Year | 3 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Published | 2002-01-01 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Person | Criticism and interpretation | Amiri Baraka |
| Person | Criticism and interpretation | Hettie Jones |
| Author | n/a | Deborah Thompson |
So there was a scandal downtown: LEROI JONES Has Left His White Wife. It fit right in with dissolving black-white political alliances. ... Close to home, though, it hurt most. There was pressure on all black people to end their interracial relationships. ... In a recently published poem, Roi had called on Black dada nihilismus to murder his friends, all of whom were now upset and angry, unprepared for the position in which he'd put them. Like Ed Dorn, they had no name for the way they were white. Neither did I. (Jones 1990, 226)
My mother is white. And I, as you may or may...
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