Home, LeRoi Jones Amiri Baraka
Home, LeRoi Jones Amiri Baraka
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Social Essays

Author: LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka)

Narrator: Brad Sanders

Unabridged: 8 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/27/2021


Synopsis

Home is, in effect, the ideological autobiography of LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka. The two dozen essays that constitute this book were written during a five-year span—a turbulent and critical period for African Americans and whites. The Cuban Revolution, the Birmingham bombings, Robert Williams’s Monroe Defense movement, the Harlem riots, the assassination of Malcolm X . . . each changed the way Jones/Baraka looked at America. This progressive change is recorded with honesty, anger, and passion in his writings.

Reviews

There are many times when the arbitrariness of moralizing and the pompous drug of self-righteousness causes us to evaluate political artists harsher and more unfairly than we do artists who write/paint/dance/craft for “art’s sake.” And that is definitely true for black political artists, especially......more

Goodreads review by Noel

Un pensador afroamericano que se enfrentaba al racismo en los años 1960s en Estados Unidos y que participó y fue testigo de los movimientos sociales de esa época. Su visión radical se entiende, aunque llama la atención su desconfianza para con Marthin Luther King Jr., a quien tilda de liberal y burg......more

Goodreads review by Derek

Read these essays close to when they came out, in the early '60s. Brilliant writing by a brilliant mind.......more

Goodreads review by Alexa

Sharp. Fuck, this book is sharp. It's a knife which carves away the bullshit and reveals America for what it is: "the worst insane asylum in man's history." So many wildly on point eviscerations. Will read again and again.......more