Jerry Watts: 2 books
Amiri Baraka
The Politics and Art of a Black Intellectual
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
Amiri Baraka, formerly known as LeRoi Jones, became known as one of the most militant, anti-white black nationalists of the 1960s Black Power movement. An advocate of Black Cultural Nationalism, Baraka supported the rejection of all things white and western. He helped found and direct the influential...
Heroism and the Black Intellectual
Ralph Ellison, Politics, and Afro-American Intellectual Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Before and after writing Invisible Man, novelist and essayist Ralph Ellison fought to secure a place as a black intellectual in a white-dominated society. In this sophisticated analysis of Ellison's cultural politics, Jerry Watts examines the ways in which black artists and thinkers attempt to establish...