60s Black Arts, “Angles of Ascent,” pp. 50-74

11 Fevereiro 2020, 10:00 • Don Howard Bialostosky

We discussed Larry Neal’s “Malcolm X—An Autobiography” and noted Malcolm’s importance to African American culture. We viewed a video of him speaking. We discussed Carolyn Rogers’ “Breaktrhrough” with Gwedolyn Brooks’ “Primer for Blacks” (available online) in terms of Baraka’s opposition between politically committed poetry and poetry focused on the self. We discussed Sonia Sanchez’s “blk / rhetoric” and watched a video of her reading,