Amiri Baraka AKA Everett LeRoi Jones Born: 7-Oct-1934 Birthplace: Newark, NJ Died: 9-Jan-2014 Location of death: Newark, NJ Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: Black Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Author Nationality: United States Executive summary: Hated Whitey Military service: USAF (1954-57, dishonorable discharge, after propaganda was found) "I don't see anything wrong with hating white people. Harlem must be taken from the beast and gain its sovereignty as a black nation." Quoted from "Tax Funds a 'Hate the Whites' Project", US News and World Report, 1965. Wife: Hettie Cohen (Jewish, m. 13-Octr-1960, div. Aug-1965, two children) Daughter: Lisa Jones Wife: Amina (m. Aug-1966, six children)
University: BA, Howard University (1953) Professor: Rutgers University
Dishonorable Discharge Guggenheim Fellowship 1965
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR William S. Burroughs: A Man Within (22-Jan-2010) · Himself The Nature of Existence (Apr-2009) · Himself Obscene (9-Sep-2007) · Himself Piņero (31-Aug-2001) · Himself The Source (23-Jan-1999) · Himself Bulworth (15-May-1998) · Rastaman Death of a Prophet (1981) · Himself
Author of books:
Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note (1961, poetry) The System of Dante's Hell (1965, novel, autobiographical) Black Art (1966) Black Music (1967) Black Magic (1969) Selected Plays and Prose (1979, collection) Selected Poetry (1979, poetry) The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones / Amiri Baraka (1984, memoir)
Wrote plays:
Dutchman (1964) The Slave (1964) The Toilet (1964)
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