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Amiri Baraka Snapshot

First Name

Amiri

Last Name

Baraka

Date of Birth

07 October 1934

Build

Average

Eye Color

Brown - Dark

Hair Color

Salt and Pepper

Place of Birth

Newark, NJ

Star Sign

Libra

Ethnicity

White

Claim to Fame

Preface to a Twenty-Volume Suicide Note (1961), the theatrical triumph Dutchman (1964), the barometric essays collected in Home: Social Essays (1966), and The System of Dante`s Hell (1965)

Gender

Male

Nationality

American

Couple Profile

Baraka, Amiri [n�� Everett LeRoi Jones] (b. 1934), playwright. The most radical and influential African�American writer of the 1960s, he first was noticed (under the name of LeRoi Jones) with Dutchman (1964), an explosive one�act allegory about a sensuous white woman who teases and taunts a black student on a subway train before killing him. Baraka`s other significant drama was Slave Ship (1967) where actors and audience experience the Atlantic crossing of a colonial slave� rade vessel. He changed his name and mission in the late 1960s, advocating theatre as a weapon against white supremacy, and his works inspired a generation of African American writers.

University

Rutgers, Columbia University, Howard University, DC, New School for Social Research

Full Name at Birth

Everett LeRoy Jones

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Role ID

Writer, Actor/Actress

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Wikipedia Text

Amiri Baraka (born October 7, 1934), formerly known as LeRoi Jones, is an American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays, and music criticism. An often controversial figure, he is the author of numerous books of poetry and has taught at a number of universities, including the State University of New York at Buffalo and the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

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