Dr. Amiri Baraka On Dr. Du Bois's Double Consciousness and more

[RBG Street Scholar]

This Lesson is On 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 Stony Brook...Learn More About Our Master Poet W.E.B. DuBois: A Love Supreme Dr. Du Bois Learning/Teaching Resources: Works by William Edward Burghardt Du Bois on Wikisource Golden Voices Audio Sample of "The Souls of Black Folk" University Massachusetts Amherst Website Du Bois Lifetime Chronology NAACP Website Entry on Du Bois W.E.B. Du Bois in Georgia /New Georgia Encyclopedia Poems by W. E. B. Du Bois at PoetryFoundation.org Online articles by Du Bois Encyclopaedia Britannica, W. E. B. Du Bois W. E. B. Du Bois in Georgia "A Biographical Sketch of W. E. B. Du Bois" by Gerald C. Hynes Review materials for studying W. E. B. Du Bois FBI File of William E. B. Du Bois The W. E. B. Du Bois Virtual University Fighting Fire with Fire: African Americans and Hereditarian Thinking, 1900-1942 The Talented Tenth W. E. B. Du Bois and Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Works by W. E. B. Du Bois at Project Gutenberg W. E. B. Du Bois (African American Literature Book Club) by Runoko Rashidi W. E. B Du Bois: a Biography in Four Voices A RBG Street Scholar Educational Design