Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction

1 Birth of an Intellectual Journey

2 Bohemian Immersions

3 An Alien among Outsiders

4 Rejecting Bohemia: The Politicization of Ethnic Guilt

5 The Quest for a Blacker Art

6 Toward a Black Arts Infrastructure

7 Black Arts Poet and Essayist

8 Black Revolutionary Playwright

9 Kawaida: Totalizing the Commitment

10 The Slave as Master: Black Nationalism, Kawaida, and the Repression of Women

11 New-Ark and the Emergence of Pragmatic Nationalism

12 Pan-Africanism

13 National Black Political Convention

14 Ever Faithful: Toward a Religious Marxism

15 The Artist as Marxist / The Marxist as Artist

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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