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Writers of the Civil Rights Era Paper LeRoi Jones A K A Amiri Baraka

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It is impossible to understand Baraka's writings without reference to his life, for both his work and his biography have been intentional and studied productions of a very specific kind of identity. So I begin with a brief overview of his life in its various stages because he has seen himself very differently during different eras of his life, which hashad consequences for the kinds of writing that he has focused on

Early Years

Baraka was born in 1934 in Newark as Everett LeRoi Jones, the son of a postal supervisor and a social worker. His first decades might not seem to give any sense of what he would become, but in retrospect there was a certain restlessness that can be seen to presage the intensity of his personal and professional lives. Baraka has always been something of a liminal character, someone existing at the margins of different movements, someone unwilling to be defined as who he was yesterday. His family of origin helped instill in him a dislike bordering on hatred of the impulse of many African-Americans to assimilate to what he saw as the values of a mainstream white America that negated the legitimacy of black experiences