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event that left the Black community traumatized. Though, Baraka uses the poem as a “call to action,” urging his Black audience to take action and to stimulate a mentality of total self consciousness. As Baraka stresses—central Malcolm X’s philosophy towards solving social injustice—self-acceptance, self-determination, and self-action are essential elements for Black liberation. The 27 line, free verse poem’s speaker is Baraka himself. Baraka immortalizes Malcolm and captures the essence of his legacy

A Father’s Absence A father is a very important figure in a child’s life. They help raise and guide their child so they can have a successful life in the future. Father’s always want what’s best for their kids and most of the time they will sacrifice what they have for their children. Without fathers, children today would be out of control and running amok. This is evident in the present and is becoming more prevalent around the world. Fathers are needed in child’s life so they can help educate their

Much of American Literature written in the 1900’s detail the experiences of race within America, being that slavery had only recently been abolished. Society in no way viewed African American’s as equal to white American’s. At this time, blacks were forced to fight to be viewed as a full person, worthy of basic human rights. Nella Larson’s Passing, and Amiri Baraka’s The Dutchman, both call attention to the racial tensions in a post Civil War America, by exposing the manipulation of the endemic

Amiri Baraka “Soul Food” The argument of fact that Baraka was explaining is how black Americans have their own language and their own characteristic food because a young Negro novelist mentions that there is a flaw with black Americans. For example, the young novelist proclaimed that blacks neither have their own characteristic food nor their own language and how many people do not know what soul food is. Also, some slang terms have developed the names for soul food which creates the foods own uniqueness

Dutch ship sailors could not anchor the ship, and had to sail forever because of a curse. The ship’s non-stop rotation on the ocean implies the play’s subway location setting, which also circulates the city. Baraka mentioned in the play setting description, “The subway heaped in modern myth” (Baraka 39). He inferred that the subway would carry a modern myth and circulated the underground like the Flying Dutchman ship. The modern myth could mean society’s racism and absurdity, or the two main characters’

understand the struggle of a African American person that is not raised in a environment opulence and trying to beat the system. Cory harbored a lot of resentment towards his father when he didn’t allow him to play football. In the poem "Black Art" Baraka declares, "poems are bullshit unless they are / teeth or trees or lemons piled / on a step" (BMP, p. 116). “Black Art” had to be a current issue that the average African American was facing at this time of century. “Black Art” is a poem that touches

'Somebody Blew Up America' by Amiri Baraka is definitely a poem that uses powerful words and phrases. Though, we may not like what he says, he strongly believes he has an important point to make and wants us to respond to what's being said. However, he makes us think we know the "who" at one point but as we continue to read you'll start to question yourself. Reading this poem would cause you to have many different thoughts on who he is talking, because the question Baraka asks is a tough one and he doesn’t

include Amiri Baraka, Bob Kaufman, and Ted Joans. To begin, jazz’s unique extemporizing aspects incites Amiri Baraka to proclaim his conviction on the worldly problems that we face in his eminent poem, Afrikan Revolution. Presented on February 4, 1973 after Amilear Cabral’s funeral, Amiri Baraka expresses his concerns on the differences among the people in society, specifically, people of African descent and anyone who is suffering from oppression. At the start of the poem, Amiri Baraka strikes his

evoked the black community to promote African American values rather than White society’s. Black artist and Social activist like Amir Baraka and Malcolm X created bodies of work that emphasized black culture. Amir Baraka was the main architect and the propelling force to the Black Arts Movement (Gates, Jr., Henry Louis; Smith, Valerie). In his play, The Dutchman, Baraka symbolically portrays the effect racism and racial oppression has on its victims. Malcom X’s nationalist oratory, sheer magnetism of

other cheek” (Little 1). Approximately 40 years later, Amiri Baraka created his controversial poem, “Somebody Blew Up America?” which was a response to the terrorist attack of the World Trade Center in New York on September 11, 2001. Similar to Malcolm X, he was known to be outspoken against oppressors that plagued America and its citizens and the “disempowering effects of white standardization on African American consciousness,” for Baraka implies, within his poem, that the attack on America was inflicted