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	Leroi Jones
		Amiri Baraka, formerly Everett LeRoi Jones, was born in 1934 in Newark, New Jersey.
		Amiri Baraka was born Everett Leroi Jones on October 7, 1934 in Newark, New Jersey.
		Amiri Baraka was born Everett LeRoi Jones in Newark, New Jersey, on October 7,...
	folks.mab-x-music.com /leroi-jones.html (995 words)

	Amiri Baraka - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Amiri Baraka was born Everett LeRoi Jones in Newark, New Jersey.
		At the same time he came into contact with the incipient movement of Beat writers that was going to have a powerful influence on his early poetry.
		In 1990 he co-authored the autobiography of Quincy Jones, and 1998 was a supporting actor in Warren Beatty's film Bulworth.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Amiri_Baraka (743 words)

	Review of Home on the Range
		LeRoi Jones, for instance, is taken literally when he calls for the death of all white devils, or whatever.
		The most recent Jones sally against the devils was his piece for voices and music which played in an East Village theater to a mixed audience of fls and whites attending a benefit for the jailed leaders of California’s Black Panther Party.
		Jones had made the same points in a talk earlier in the evening, that fls are more natural, more creative than whites, who are imitative and who basically want to be like fls.
	www.nathanielturner.com /leroijones.htm (1255 words)

	Blues People : Negro Music in White America: Current Amazon U.S.A. One-Edition Data (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Amiri Baraka, born Leroi Jones in 1934, is a poet, playwright, novelist, critic, and politcal activist.
		I used Blues People by Leroi Jones when I designed the History of Black Music courses at Harvard University in September 1970.It is still the most "effective" text in introducing a "proper" study of the Music of Black Americans.
		While some of Jones' scholarship is weak and his analysis has problems, his statement of the fl/white interaction is very important and has yet to be adequately investigated.
	www.newyorkwebhosting.us /stuff-068818474X.html (1315 words)

	Commentary Magazine - The Demagogy of LeRoi Jones (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		LeRoi Jones, in his two new plays, "The Toilet" and "The Slave," but especially in the latter, has raised a lot of questions and has answered them all in terms of race.
		...Jones is asking them to adjust forever to racial conflict, as if there were nothing more in life...
		...Where Jones is alive is in his language, the expressive monologues, for instance of the Negro revolutionary of The Slave...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V39I2P69-1.htm (2434 words)

	Black Man as Victim
		LeRoi Jones, in a 1962 address to the American Society for African Culture, insisted that the job of the Negro writer was to portray “the emotional history of the fl man in this country: as its victim and its chronicler.” Jones the dramatist has taken his own advice.
		Jones’ Liberator essay is itself incoherent, frantic, filled with sentences in upper case, with quintuple question marks and double exclamation points.
		Jones says the political change is only the liberal game, “palliatives and symbols to remind him of his own good faith.” So the fear remains.
	www.nathanielturner.com /leroijones2.htm (3628 words)

	American Passages - Unit 15. Poetry of Liberation: Authors
		Amiri Baraka was born Everett Leroy Jones in Newark, New Jersey.
		Also gifted academically, Jones graduated from high school two years early and attended Howard University, where he was disappointed by what he saw as the school's attempt to train fl students to be white.
		Jones became increasingly interested in drama, and his most successful play, Dutchman, premiered on March 24, 1964, at the Cherry Lane Theatre in New York, with Jennifer West and Robert Hooks starring in the lead roles.
	www.learner.org /amerpass/unit15/authors-2.html (518 words)

	Leroi Jones on LibraryThing \| Catalog your books online
		LeRoi / Amiri Baraka] Harris, William J., editor i (separate)
		Also known as: amiri baraka, Amira Baraka, Amiri Baraka, Imamu Amiri Baraka, Imanu Amiri Baraka, LeRoi / Amiri Baraka] Harris, William J., editor i, (Leroi Jones) Imamu Amiri Baraka...
		There are 3 conversations about Leroi Jones's books.
	www.librarything.com /author/jonesleroi (385 words)

	College Literature: Keeping up with the Joneses: The naming of racial identities in the autobiographical writings of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka is perhaps best known as the author of the 1964 play Dutchman, in which a white woman symbolically rapes and literally murders a fl man. The play dramatically captured the cultural moment of a radical shift in fl identity and politics, and in interracial relations, in the U..
		The late 1950s and early 1960s, as documented by LeRoi's and Hettie's autobiographies, were a time when interracial relationships shifted in the U.S. cultural imagination from being radical and progressive to being reactionary and regressive.
		Hettie Jones (222) and "Hettie" alone (238-39).) In the first sentence of the autobiography, we are invited to "Meet Hettie Cohen." In the final lines of the autobiography, she meets an old friend "searching out a name for [her] and rejecting all the choices," settling finally on simply "Hettie" (238-39).
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3709/is_200201/ai_n9077110 (1039 words)

	Baraka, Amiri on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Newark, N.J., as LeRoi Jones, studied at Rutgers Univ., Howard Univ. (B.A., 1954).
		Leroi JONES, one of the original Beat poets and controversial for his extreme political views, at his home in Newark.
		New Jersey Poet Laureate Amiri Baraka, shown in October 2002, has come under fire because critics say one of his poems was anti-Semitic.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/B/Baraka-I1.asp (774 words)

	LeRoi Jones (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		LeRoi Jones was a prominent African American figure throughout the various art forms and communities of New York City.
		I had never heard of LeRoi Jones prior to this semester, but now that I have, his name has popped a couple of times outside of this class.
		Jones entered the world of Greenwich Village, a world where equality and freedom were its goals, and became a successful African American artist.
	www.wam.umd.edu /~molouns/amst450/cu/jones.html (681 words)

	Amiri Baraka: Biography and Historical Context
		In 1934 Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) was born in the industrial city of Newark, New Jersey.
		During his Beat period, when he was known as LeRoi Jones, Baraka lived in New York’s Greenwich Village and Lower East Side, where he published important little magazines such as Yugen and Floating Bear and socialized with such bohemian figures as [Allen] Ginsberg, Frank O’Hara, and Gilbert Sorrentino.
		He was greatly influenced by the white avant-garde: Charles Olson, O’Hara, and Ginsberg, in particular, shaped his conception of a poem as being exploratory and open in form.
	www.english.uiuc.edu /maps/poets/a_f/baraka/bio.htm (818 words)

	leroi jones amiri baraka (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		This is the life that LeRoi Jones knew.
		LeRoi Jones was born on October 7, 1934 in Newark, New Jersey.
		LeRoi Jones attended Barringer High School and was one of the best students there.
	www.newton.mec.edu /bigelow/classroom/yerardi/blackhistory05/section2/annieg/02blackhist05ag.htm (264 words)

	African American Review: LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka and the limits of open form - Critical Essay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Thus, for instance, though the young LeRoi Jones of this passage understands that people of color can circulate freely in certain sections of San Juan only if they are American soldiers, he does not, at this point, articulate any sort of (even preliminary) postcolonial critique of such segregation.
		Nor does he attribute his alienation in the face of this "carefully put together exercise" to race or class, but instead to something within him "so out" that the verse he is reading somehow excludes him and to the fact that this particular verse form and magazine will never express what is "in" him.
		While this moment of alienation feels painful, there is something empowering here as well, a clear sense of resistance to an ideological process that, according to some accounts, would have LeRoi Jones accept his place as an obediently racialized lower-middle-class laborer.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2838/is_2-3_37/ai_110531678 (1312 words)

	Poem Some People Will Have To Understand - Analysis of Leroi Jones' A Poem Some People Will Have To Understand
		Jones' warning is immediately evident in the title through his manipulation of words.
		One the one hand, "have to" is an innocuous statement of the alliance Jones expects to find among his Afro-American readers--these people will "have to" understand the poem because it speaks to their individual, personal lives.
		Beyond the title, Jones creates a forbidding speaker--a man at a crossroads, or rather, at a moment of decision.
	www.123helpme.com /preview.asp?id=6055 (1537 words)

	AMIRI BARAKA (LEROI JONES), 1934-
		The Baptism, and The Toilet, as LeRoi Jones.
		LeRoi Jones: (Imamu Amiri Baraka): A Checklist of Works by and about Him.
		A LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka) Bibliography: A Keyed Research Guide to Works by LeRoi Jones and the Writings about Him and His Works.
	www.cla.sc.edu /ENGL/LitCheck/Baraka.htm (497 words)

	Racist Yale Laureate (Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Baraka was born Everett Leroy Jones in 1934 to a middle-class family in Newark, New Jersey.
		Jones launched his literary career with the 1961 publication of his Beat-influenced poetry collection, Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note.
		One year later, Jones became a Muslim and changed his name to Amiri Baraka, meaning “Blessed Prince.” By this time, he was among the most heralded poets of fl nationalists (and Communists).
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/951963/posts (1905 words)

	Heath Anthology of American LiteratureAmiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) - Author Page
		Amiri Baraka, born Everett LeRoy Jones to Coyt LeRoy and Anna Lois Jones in Newark, New Jersey, grew up in a middle-class environment.
		About 1951, the first of his name changes occurred with the spelling of his middle name from “LeRoy” to “LeRoi.” From 1952 to 1954 he attended Howard University, where he studied with Sterling Brown and Nathan Scott.
		Again a change of name signaled a re-shaping of identity: LeRoi Jones became Imamu Amiri Baraka, as he was known through the racial upheavals of the 60s.
	college.hmco.com /english/lauter/heath/4e/students/author_pages/contemporary/barakaleroijones_am.html (552 words)

	Amiri Baraka
		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 fl 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.
	www.amiribaraka.com (396 words)

	Used Book Central Search / author: Baraka, Imamu, Amiri
		BARAKA, IMAMU AMIRI (Leroi Jones): New York, Freundlich, 1984.
		Jones, LeRoi) Baraka, Imamu Amiri: NY GROVE PRESS 1967.
		Jones, LeRoi) Baraka, Imamu Amiri: NY Morrow 1964.
	www.usedbookcentral.com /texis/ubc/searchbooks,author,Baraka_Imamu_Amiri.html (415 words)

	The Fiction of Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka:Jones, Leroi; Barake, Amiri; Baraka, Imamu Amiri:155652353X:eCampus.com
		The Fiction of Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka:Jones, Leroi; Barake, Amiri; Baraka, Imamu Amiri:155652353X:eCampus.com
		LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka is most famous for his Afrocentric plays and poetry, but he also published a novel and a book of short stories in the 1960s.
		Until his adoption of fl nationalism, Jones was thought of as a beat writer, and his autobiographical fiction shares the self-consciousness and restlessness of Jack Kerouac and Hubert Selby.
	www.ecampus.com /bk_detail.asp?ISBN=155652353X (100 words)

	The New York Review of Books: LEROI JONES
		Lo & behold, fourth execrable whammy!—the Judge recited LeRoi's visionary poem to the court (a butchered version)…and gave him a long 2 1/2-3 year sentence because of it.
		Jones' whitekind is that self-same demon we call tyranny, injustice, dictatorship.
		LeRoi is not only a fl man, a Newark man, a revolutionary, he is a conspicuous American artist imprisoned for his poetry during a crisis of authoritarianism in these States.
	www.nybooks.com /articles/11720 (273 words)

	Imamu Amiri (LeRoi Jones) Baraka
		You will unwind the grasp of the cocoon you live in and you will notice that nowadays society has become void and the only think that can redeem it is art through all its expressions, whether we talk about dance or romance.
		It is an uplifting situation that those who beautify the soul are continuously challenging our immagination and our wits with their endless masterpieces.
		So, if you are annoyed relax and move on into the skies with Imamu Amiri (LeRoi Jones) Baraka.
	www.wonderful-people.com /Actors/Actors_B/index5/Bears20012.htm (217 words)

	Baraka Exhibit: The Beat Period
		Type-signed at end: LeRoi Jones, New York City.
		LeRoi Jones served, variously, as contributing editor, jazz editor, and music editor, and published numerous pieces in the journal during its five-year run.
		Type-signed at end of text: LeRoi Jones, February 27, 1961.
	www.brown.edu /Facilities/University_Library/exhibits/baraka/beat.html (333 words)

	City Pages - Back in Black (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Jones' little work is a melange of sardonic images and undisciplined filth.
		Jones was one of the first American playwrights to feel the influence of the new European theater of Beckett and Ionesco, where characters are symbols and plays are located in the realm of the abstract.
		The first is to praise his obvious virtues while letting his subtly radical ones go unseen; and the second is to disarm his personal vision by enlisting it in some general social or cultural cause.
	www.citypages.com /databank/19/917/article5424.asp (2813 words)

	JONES, L. MSS.
		JONES, L. The Jones, L. mss., 1950-1961 (principally 1958-1961), consist of the editorial office records of two little magazines, Yugen, 1958-1961, of which LeRoi Jones, 1934-, poet, and Hettie Cohen were editors, and "The floating bear," 1961, of which Jones and Diane Di Prima, poet, were editors.
		This consists in the main of letters to LeRoi Jones and Diane Di Prima from contributors and others interest in expressing the opinions of the "beat generation." The letters are basically concerned with matters regarding contributions, criticism of contemporaries, and descriptions of activities participated in by various individuals.
		are included in the collection are [a] Jones, LeRoi.
	www.indiana.edu /~liblilly/lilly/mss/html/jonesl.html (210 words)

	Amiri Baraka -- 7th Annual Literary Festival -- Old Dominion University -- Oct 1-4, 1984
		The baptism & The toilet, by LeRoi Jones.
		Confirmation, an anthology of AfricanAmerican women compiled by Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) and Amina Baraka.
		The LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka reader / by Amiri Baraka ; edited by William J. Harris in collaboration with Amiri Baraka.
	www.lib.odu.edu /litfest/7th/barakabooks.html (231 words)

	annotatedbibliography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The one that shines most is the description of the play Dutchman, which she addresses as "Jones' most outstanding drama to date".
		She ends by criticizing Jones' plays, saying that they lack in form, and "try to hard in shock value".
		But she concludes with that Jones' fury and despair, is his way of trying to liberate the minds of fl people, emphasizing that if you do or don't agree with the methods of Jones, his plays are important in message.
	www.louisville.edu /~eabeen01/annotatedbibliography.html (428 words)

	ttgapers.com store - Black Music - Leroi Jones, Imamu Amiri Baraka - Product Details (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		This scintillating collection by Amiri Imamu Baraka, published in 1968 under his birth name Leroi Jones, covers a wide range of jazz writings from 1959 to 1967.
		In "Jazz and the White Critic," which blasts white critics who judge jazz by European, rather than African American, standards, Jones wrote, "As Western people, the sociocultural thinking of 18th-century Europe comes to us as history and legacy that is a continuous and organic part of the 20th-century West.
		After hearing Leroi Jones on Sunny Murray and the NYAQ's records, and reading little excerpts of some of his reviews in books on free jazz, I thought I'd pick this up and check it out.
	www.ttgapers.com /ttStore-index2-asin-0306808145.html (415 words)

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