Black Arts: An Anthology of Black Creations
Item
Title
Black Arts: An Anthology of Black Creations
This edition
"Black Arts: An Anthology of Black Creations" . Ed. Ahmed Alhamisi and Harun Kofi Wangara. Detroit: Black Arts Productions, 1969. 158 pp.
Table of contents
Soulfiction. Natural black beauty / Joe Goncalves -- Sidi Ahmed Baba : portrait of a black intellectual / Harun Kofi Wangara -- The crisis in black culture / Askia Muhammad Toure' -- Black music : new black revolutionary art / Milford Graves.
The black experience. You gonna let me take you out tonight, baby? / Ed Bullins -- The monster / Ronald Milner -- The contraband / S.E. Anderson -- Love song for Willa Mae / C.H. Fuller.
African soul. Sculpture / Ahmed Alhamisi -- Illustrations / Tom Feelings -- Drawings / Omar Lama -- Graphics / James Lee -- Fashions / Modell Cheatham -- Photographs / Roy Lewis.
Spirits. The tide inside, it rages. The memorial position ; In finality where to go is what to do / Lindsay Barrett.
Spirits. Introduction : statement on black arts ; But he was so cool ; History of the poet as a whore / Don L. Lee.
Spirits. The heart of the black ghetto / Eugene Perkins -- Black art spirits / Alicia Johnson -- A folk fabel / Johari Amini (Jewel Latimore) -- Portrait of a white nigger ; You name it no. 2 ; For Negroes / Carolyn Rodgers -- Sacrificial ritual ; O god ; Mulungu / Ahmed Alhamisi -- To my contemporaries in the great American universities / Elton Hill-Abu Ishak -- The leaders ; The intellectuals / Dudley Randall -- Woman ; Poem / Gloria House -- For me who don't read classics / Malaika Ayo Wangara -- Study peace / Ameer Baraka (Leroi Jones) -- PEACE / Larry Miller -- The true import of present dialogue black vs. Negro / Nikki Giovanni -- Amanda! (Power!) : statement on black arts ; For Leroi Jones, April, 1965 ; My name is Africa ; New dawn / Keorapetse Kgositsile -- The elimination of the blues / S.E. Anderson -- A father tells his son about the Statue of Liberty / Bobb Hamilton -- Black writing : a statement ; One spark can light a prairie fire / Larry Neal -- Some hop-scotching ; "Black power" / Edward S. Spriggs -- Orange soda & chocolate kup kakes / Joseph Bevans Bush -- The second plane ; Light / Norman Jordan -- For black poets who think of suicide / Etheridge Knight -- Poem for my children ; Poem / Sonia Sanchez -- Don't you forget it ; Poem / James Stewart -- The sound of Allah's horn / Askia Muhammad Toure' -- Al Fitnah Muhajir ; Did you vote nigger? / Marvin X -- Islam & black art : an interview with Ameer Baraka (Leroi Jones) / by Marvin X and Faruk'.
The black experience. You gonna let me take you out tonight, baby? / Ed Bullins -- The monster / Ronald Milner -- The contraband / S.E. Anderson -- Love song for Willa Mae / C.H. Fuller.
African soul. Sculpture / Ahmed Alhamisi -- Illustrations / Tom Feelings -- Drawings / Omar Lama -- Graphics / James Lee -- Fashions / Modell Cheatham -- Photographs / Roy Lewis.
Spirits. The tide inside, it rages. The memorial position ; In finality where to go is what to do / Lindsay Barrett.
Spirits. Introduction : statement on black arts ; But he was so cool ; History of the poet as a whore / Don L. Lee.
Spirits. The heart of the black ghetto / Eugene Perkins -- Black art spirits / Alicia Johnson -- A folk fabel / Johari Amini (Jewel Latimore) -- Portrait of a white nigger ; You name it no. 2 ; For Negroes / Carolyn Rodgers -- Sacrificial ritual ; O god ; Mulungu / Ahmed Alhamisi -- To my contemporaries in the great American universities / Elton Hill-Abu Ishak -- The leaders ; The intellectuals / Dudley Randall -- Woman ; Poem / Gloria House -- For me who don't read classics / Malaika Ayo Wangara -- Study peace / Ameer Baraka (Leroi Jones) -- PEACE / Larry Miller -- The true import of present dialogue black vs. Negro / Nikki Giovanni -- Amanda! (Power!) : statement on black arts ; For Leroi Jones, April, 1965 ; My name is Africa ; New dawn / Keorapetse Kgositsile -- The elimination of the blues / S.E. Anderson -- A father tells his son about the Statue of Liberty / Bobb Hamilton -- Black writing : a statement ; One spark can light a prairie fire / Larry Neal -- Some hop-scotching ; "Black power" / Edward S. Spriggs -- Orange soda & chocolate kup kakes / Joseph Bevans Bush -- The second plane ; Light / Norman Jordan -- For black poets who think of suicide / Etheridge Knight -- Poem for my children ; Poem / Sonia Sanchez -- Don't you forget it ; Poem / James Stewart -- The sound of Allah's horn / Askia Muhammad Toure' -- Al Fitnah Muhajir ; Did you vote nigger? / Marvin X -- Islam & black art : an interview with Ameer Baraka (Leroi Jones) / by Marvin X and Faruk'.
Reviews and notices of anthology
n/a
Cited in
• Kallenbach 1979
• [Kinnamon 1997: 466]
Item Number
A0093