Slave Ship | Author Biography
Floyd Gaffney, in the Dictionary of Literary Biography, has compared Amiri Baraka (also known as LeRoi Jones or Imamu Amiri Baraka) to W. E. B. Dubois and Richard Wright as "one of the twentieth century's most prolific and persistent social and moral critics of black experience in America.’’ Baraka's political and literary career can be divided into three separate phases: a Beat Movement poet in the 1950s, a black nationalist poet, dramatist, essayist, and music historian in the 1960s, and a Marxist/ Socialist writer and activist in the 1970s.
Baraka was born Everett Leroy...
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