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...Rina Amiri, the project coordinator, said she hopes the women, who have worked in conflict resolution in their home countries, will inspire students to get involved in the field...
...third renaissance was the Black Arts Movement, which extended from the mid-'60s to the early '70s. Defining itself against the Harlem Renaissance and deeply rooted in black cultural nationalism, the Black Arts writers imagined themselves as the artistic wing of the Black Power movement. Amiri Baraka, Larry Neal and Sonia Sanchez viewed black art as a matter less of aesthetics than of protest; its function was to serve the political liberation of black people from white racism. Erected on a shifting foundation of revolutionary politics, this "renaissance" was the most short-lived of all. By 1975, with the Black...
...Criticism is going to come all over. It's going to come from people like ((writer Amiri)) Baraka who felt I was too bourgeois to do this film. And it's going to come from the other side: people who believe that I'm a racist and antiwhite and anti-Semitic and preach hatred...
...pages away, historian Adolph Reed, Jr. criticizes the same artists for "spew[ing] garbled compounds of half-truth, distortion, Afrocentric drivel, and crackerbarrel wisdom." Amiri Baraka, in his uneven but driving essay, inveighs against Spike Lee's forthcoming film, calling it part of the "black bourgeoisie's attack on Malcolm X." Marlon Riggs later labels Baraka's approach mere "rhetoric...
Part of the problem is her physical presence on the stage. Instead of the "tall, slender, beautiful woman with long red hair hanging straight down her back" Amiri Baraka describes, Cohen is slight and much shorter than McNeal...