Dr. Amiri Baraka On Dr. Du Bois's Double Consciousness Precept and more
Precept: a command or principle intended especially as a general rule of action.
Theme Concepts presented in this
Lesson include Self Respect, Self Determination and Self Defense and
the history of the Struggle to be who we are as Afrikans in Amerikkka.
As I
am a Native of Newark, Dr. Baraka was one of my first and most
influential Leaders and Teachers: I attended his school (The NewArk
School) and was a member of his Cultural Nationalist Organization (Kawaida) as a young lad of 15.
Amiri
Baraka, born in 1934, in Newark, New Jersey, USA, is the author of over
40 books of essays, poems, drama, and music history and criticism, a
poet icon and revolutionary political activist who has recited poetry
and lectured on cultural and political issues extensively in the USA,
the Caribbean, Africa, and Europe.
With influences on his work
ranging from musical orishas such as Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane,
Theophilus Monk, and Sun Ra to the Cuban Revolution, Malcolm X and
world revolutionary movements, Baraka is renown as the founder of the Black Arts Movement
in Harlem in the 1960s that became, though short-lived, the virtual
blueprint for a new American theater aesthetics. The movement and his
published and performance work, such as the signature study on
African-American music, Blues People (1963) and the play Dutchman
(1963) practically seeded “the cultural corollary to black nationalism”
of that revolutionary American milieu.
Other titles range from
Selected Poetry of Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones (1979), to The Music
(1987), a fascinating collection of poems and monographs on Jazz and
Blues authored by Baraka and his wife and poet Amina, and his boldly
sortied essays, The Essence of Reparations (2003).
The Essence
of Reparations is Baraka’s first published collection of essays in book
form radically exploring what is sure to become a twenty-first century
watershed movement of Black peoples to the interrelated issues of
racism, national oppression, colonialism, neo-colonialism,
self-determination and national and human liberation, which he has long
been addressing creatively and critically. It has been said that Amiri
Baraka is committed to social justice like no other American writer. He
has taught at Yale, Columbia, and the State University of New York at
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