Black Macho and SOS readings
The page numbers on the syllabus for Black Macho translate into: Part 1, chapter 1, Part II, chapters 1 & 3
from SOS Calling All Black People! A Black Arts Movement Reader:
Larry Neal, “The Black Arts Movement” (essay) 55
Amira Baraka, “Black Art” (essay)
Read one of these three:
- Harold Cruse, “The Harlem Black Arts Theater—New Dialogue with the Lost Black Generation” 39
- Dudley Randall, “Broadside Press: A Personal Chronicle”(essay) 67
- Barbara Ann Teer, “Needed: A New Image” (essay -theater) 82
Sonia Sanchez, “Introduction (Queens of the Universe)” 114
Jewel C. Latimore (Johari Amini), “Upon Being Black One Friday Night in July” 265
Jayne Cortez, “How Long Has This Trane Been Gone 327
Sonia Sanchez, “a /coltrane /poem” 361
Ishmael Reed, “I am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra” 380
Mari Evans, “I am a Black Woman” 386
Nikki Giovanni, “Woman Poem” 388
June Jordan, “If you saw a Negro lady” 391
Audre Lorde, “Naturally” 393
Don L. Lee / Haki Madhubuti, “blackwoman” 396
Sonia Sanchez “woman” 398
Etheridge Knight, The Idea of Ancestry 413″
Aishah Rahman, “Living in the Black Arts Movement” (Reminiscence/essay) 439
Addendum (in courseworks)
Nikki Giovanni, “Beautiful Black Men”
—–, “The True Import Of Present Dialogue, Black vs. Negro (For Peppe, Who Will Ultimately Judge Our Efforts)”
Hearing Amiri Baraka on NYTimes
As we’ve discussed, music was an important part of Black Arts Aesthetics and Ideology, so here are some playlists
Black Power Mixtape by NPR if you are a member on Spotify
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/black-power-mixtape/music.html
I also made a YouTube mixtape mostly based on the “Music” section in SOS: Calling All Black People