Amiri Barakka's Vision of Black Nation
Abstract
In all his essays and plays the thrust of Baraka's argument is that the Blacks should be proud of being black and that they should strive to rid themselves of the enervating mythical perception of reality induced in them by Whites through systematic propagation of shibboleths which help keep them in their degraded condition. He asserts that believing in what is implied by 'Black is Beautiful' the Blacks will be able to achieve a creative self-hood or an identity matching their expectations as citizens of America.
References
Notes
"ImamuAmiri Baraka: A Collection of Critical
Essays," ed. Benston W. Kimberly (New Jersey:
Prentice Hall, 1978), p.16.
Ibid., p.18.
Harold Cruse, "The Crisis of the Negro
Intellectual" (New York: 1967), p.364.
LeRoi Jones, Raise Race Rays Raze: Essays Since
(New York: Random House, 1971), p.47.
Ibid., p.127.
Ibid., p.44. Ibid., p.101.
Ibid., P. 101
LeRoi Jones, Home: Social Essays (New York: William
Morrow, 1966), p.192.
