Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka

https://blackboard.albany.edu/bbcswebdav/pid-4610659-dt-content-rid-92182559_1/courses/2209-AENG-358-7787/Smethurst%2C%20Pat%20Your%20Foot%20%28on%20Baraka%20and%20Black%20Arts%20Movement%29.pdf https://blackboard.albany.edu/bbcswebdav/pid-4612219-dt-content-rid-92192629_1/courses/2209-AENG-358-7787/Jones%2C%20Selections%20from%20Black%20Magic.pdf https://blackboard.albany.edu/bbcswebdav/pid-4612223-dt-content-rid-92192634_1/courses/2209-AENG-358-7787/Baraka%2C%20The%20Black%20Arts%20Movement%20%281994%29.pdf https://blackboard.albany.edu/bbcswebdav/pid-4610664-dt-content-rid-92182562_1/courses/2209-AENG-358-7787/Johnson%2C%20Return%20of%20the%20Native%20%28on%20Baraka-Black%20Nationalism%29.pdf The first link is required to back up the poem (2nd link). The second link, ONE poem most be chosen from it to be used as the basis of the essay. The remaining 2 links are secondary sources that can be used. Additional outside sources can be supplemented as long as they are cited. 6 page essay on Baraka’s time during the Beat era when he focused more on the Black struggle. I will send in a proposal that will display the idea that I was going for with essay. If you have any questions or if you’d like to tweak the thesis you can let me know. I will also send the Paper Criteria.