Baraka, Transitions: The man and the poetry
Tenements absorbed the sun to brick and spread the heat like a steam iron, pressing ideas flat,...
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The Flying Dutchman:
An Overview of LeRoi Jones’ Greatest Commentary on the Struggle of the Black Man and Racial...
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Love, H: The Letters of Helene Dorn and Hettie Jones
Love, H: The Letters of Helene Dorn and Hettie Jones chronicles a forty year friendship through...
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Beaten White
The Beat Generation found itself mystified by the black culture of the time. This mystification...
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War Upon War: The Second-Generation Beats and Postmemory
This essay originally appeared in Beatdom #15: the WAR issue. Most of the...
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Amiri Baraka (1934-2014)
Yesterday, on 9th January, Amiri Baraka passed away at the age of 79. He was an influential and...
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Somebody Blew Up America: A Conversation with Amiri Baraka
This interview originally appeared in Beatdom #12 – the CRIME issue. You can purchase it on...
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What to Expect from Beatdom #12
It’s here, it’s here, it’s finally here!!!! That’s right, ladies and...
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The Beats & Sixties Counterculture
The 1960s are associated with what Frank calls ‘the big change, the birthplace of our own culture,...
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Women of the Beat Generation
History has not been kind to the women of the Beat Generation. During the Beat era, they were...
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