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Home: Social Essays by Amiri Baraka is a reprint of a book he published back in 1965 when he was still known as LeRoi Jones. The crisp writing from 40 years ago is a reminder of a time when the written word was a bit more dangerous and taken more seriously by the general public and authors were admired for their intellects rather than their royalties.

This reissue features a highly provocative and profoundly insightful collection of 1960s social and political essays. LeRoi Jones (now known as Amiri Baraka) is the author of numerous books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. He was named Poet Laureate of New Jersey by the New Jersey Commission on Humanities, from 2002 2004.

Home: Social Essays (Renegade Reprint Series) by LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka) ISBN 13: 9781933354675 ISBN 10: 1933354674 Paperback; New York: Akashic Books, 2009-01; ISBN-13: 978-1933354675.

This reissue features a highly provocative and profoundly insightful collection of 1960s social and political essays. LeRoi Jones (now known as Amiri Baraka) is the author of numerous books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.

If the more established New York Review of Books Classics series is good, superindie publisher Akashic’s is bad—as in badass. You can’t get more.

Baraka’s essay “Expressive Language” first appeared in Kulchur in the winter of 1963, and was published in his collection Home: Social Essays (1966).

Black American Writers Bibliographical Essays: Volume 2 Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and Amiri Baraka Palgrave Macmillan UK M. Thomas Inge, Maurice Duke, Jackson R. Bryer (eds.).

His work sharpened in Home: Social Essays (1966) and fueled the drive for the Black Arts Repertory Theater School, one of New York City's cultural landmarks. He completed Arm Yourself or Harm Yourself (1967) and collaborated with Larry Neal on Black Fire: An Anthology of Afro-American Writing (1968).

A year earlier, he published Home: Social Essays. With Amina, Baraka returned to his native Newark, where they opened a theater and residence for artists called the Spirit House. He also headed to Los Angeles to meet with scholar and activist Ron Karenga (or Maulana Karenga), founder of the Kwanzaa holiday, which aims to reconnect black Americans to their African heritage.

Imamu Amiri Baraka (1966). “Home: Social Essays”, New York: Morrow.

Home: Social Essays by LeRoi Jones. Ecco Pr. Paperback. GOOD. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Possible ex library copy, will have the markings and stickers associated from the library. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included.