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Tables of Contents for The Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface to the Reader
xi
 
Amiri Baraka
Editor's Note
xv
 
Introduction
xvii
 
William J. Harris
Chronology
xxxi
 
THE BEAT PERIOD (1957-1962)
1
18
From Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note (poetry, 1961)
3
13
Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note
3
1
Hymn for Lanie Poo
4
6
In Memory of Radio
10
1
Look for You Yesterday, Here You Come Today
11
3
Notes for a Speech
14
2
From New American Poetry (poetics, 1960)
16
3
How You Sound??
16
3
THE TRANSITIONAL PERIOD (1963-1965)
19
104
From Blues People (music criticism, 1963)
21
30
African Slaves/American Slaves: Their Music
21
12
Swing --- From Verb to Noun
33
18
From The Dead Lecturer (poetry, 1964)
51
25
A contract. (for the destruction and rebuilding of Paterson
51
1
An Agony. As Now.
52
1
A Poem for Willie Best
53
6
Short Speech To My Friends
59
1
The politics of rich painters
60
2
Rhythm & Blues
62
4
Crow Jane
66
3
For Crow Jane/Mama Death.
66
1
Crow Jane's Manner.
66
1
Crow Jane In High Society.
67
1
Crow Jane The Crook
68
1
The dead lady canonized.
69
1
I Substitute for the Dead Lecturer
69
2
Black Dada Nihilismus
71
2
Political Poem
73
1
The Liar
74
2
Dutchman (play, 1964)
76
24
From The System of Dante's Hell (novel, 1965)
100
23
The Heretics
100
23
THE BLACK NATIONALIST PERIOD (1965-1974)
123
126
From Home: Social Essays (collected essays, 1966)
125
46
Cuba Libre
125
36
The Legacy of Malcolm X, and the Coming of the Black Nation
161
8
State/meant
169
2
From Tales (stories, 1967)
171
8
The Screamers
171
6
Words
177
2
From Black Music (music criticism, 1968)
179
31
Jazz and the White Critic
179
7
The Changing Same (R&B and New Black Music)
186
24
From Black Magic (poetry, 1969)
210
15
A Poem Some People Will Have To Understand
210
1
Citizen Cain
211
1
Letter to E. Franklin Frazier
212
1
Leadbelly Gives An Autograph
213
1
Numbers, Letters
214
1
Western Front
215
1
T. T. Jackson sings
216
1
Return of the Native
217
1
A Poem for Black Hearts
218
1
SOS
218
1
Black Art
219
1
Poem for HalfWhite College Students
220
1
W. W.
221
1
Ka 'Ba
221
1
The World Is Full of Remarkable Things
222
1
leroy
223
1
Black People!
224
1
From Four Black Revolutionary Plays (1969)
225
15
Great Goodness of Life (1966)
225
15
From It's Nation Time (poetry, 1970)
240
3
It's Nation Time
240
3
Afrikan Revolution (poem, 1973)
243
6
THE THIRD WORLD MARXIST PERIOD (1974-)
249
334
From Hard Facts (poetry, 1975)
251
11
When We'll Worship Jesus
251
3
A New Reality Is Better Than a New Movie!
254
2
The Dictatorship of the Proletariat
256
2
Das Kapital
258
2
A Poem for Deep Thinkers
260
2
From Poetry for the Advanced (poetry, 1979)
262
11
Pres Spoke in a Language
262
1
Dope
263
4
Am/Trak
267
6
What Was The Relationship of the Lone Ranger to the Means of Production? (play, 1979)
273
29
In the Tradition (poem, 1982)
302
9
From Daggers and Javelins (essays, 1984)
311
29
The Revolutionary Tradition in Afro-American Literature
311
11
Aime Cesaire
322
11
Ngugi wa Thiongo
333
7
From The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka (1984)
340
60
Error Farce
340
27
The Black Arts (Harlem, Politics, Search for a New Life)
367
33
From The Music: Reflections on Jazz and Blues (1987)
400
95
Primitive World: An Anti-Nuclear Jazz Musical (play, 1983)
400
50
Jimmy! (eulogy for James Baldwin, 1987)
450
7
Black People & Jesse Jackson II (essay, 1988-89)
457
23
Why's/Wise
480
15
Wise 1
481
1
Wise 2
481
2
Wise 3
483
1
Wise 4
484
1
Wise 5
485
1
Wise 6
486
2
Wise 7
488
1
Wise 8
488
1
Wise 9
489
1
Wise 10
490
1
Rough Hand Dreamers (Wise 11)
491
1
A farmer come to the city (Wise 12)
491
1
Wise 13
492
3
New and Previously Unpublished Works
495
88
The Black Arts Movement (essay, 1994)
495
11
Malcolm As Ideology (1995)
506
15
An Introduction (unpublished)
521
4
Robert Williams
Sweet Lorraine (essay, unpublished, performed as a tribute to Lorraine Hansberry, 1996)
525
3
Portrait of the Lion: Willie ``The Lion'' Smith, A Script for the New-Arkestra (musical drama, performed 1997-1998 at NJPAC & NYU)
528
17
Black Reconstruction: Du Bois and the U.S. Struggle for Democracy and Socialism (1998)
545
15
Allah Mean Everything! Pt One (poem, unpublished 1998)
560
3
Margaret Walker (essay, 1999)
563
3
Understanding Readiness (1999)
566
1
Sassy Was Definitely Not the Avon Lady (narrative, performed at Sassy Tribute, March 1999 NJPAC, published in Digging, 1999)
567
3
Mumia, ``Lynch Law'' and Imperialism (1999)
570
5
The Great Max Roach (1999)
575
2
My Man Came by the Crib the Other Day ... (short story, 1999)
577
6
Select Bibliography
583
4
About the Editor
587