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Amistad 2
Edited by John A. Williams and Charles F. Harris
Vintage Books, February 1971
Comments about
Amistad 1
The first issue should leave no doubt in anyone's mind
from what sector of American life the most penetrating
thinking and writing is now coming.
Amistad 1
challenges American arts and letters by presenting
alternative interpretations of America and the West,
with particular emphasis in this issue on history and
literature . . .
Amistad 1 has made an exciting
beginning and its impact on college campuses as well as
the white literary and academic establishment should be
profound.
—New York
Times Book Review
A great
many whites will squirm when and if they read the first
issue of
Amistad 1. . . But none can quibble with
the quality of the writing, the varied combination of
fiction and essays and the directness and force with
which major articles fortify the magazine's purpose
—Book
Week
The
Black movement has the shape of a triangle: culture
connected to politics connected to economics. The
editors have wisely chosen a multidisciplinary approach
to their publication. They regard the humanities and
social sciences as the major divisions of the university
that must bear the responsibility for the "inculcation
of intellectual racism."
Amistad 1 can prove no
important force in helping to give shape and definitions
to the seventies. Such a magazine can prove invaluable
to students, teachers, and the writers who will turn to
its pages for publication.
—University
Review
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Amistad 2
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Contents
Blueprint for Negro Literature
2
Richard
Wright
The
Lyrics of James Brown: Ain’t It Funky
Now,
Or Money
Won’t Change Your Licking Stick
21
Mel Watkins
The
Bluest Eye fiction
65
Toni
Morrison
Rappin’
With Myself 97
John Oliver
Killens
The
Return: A Fantasy fiction
137
Gayl Jones
The White
Masters of the World
169
W.E.B.
DuBois
Commuting
fiction 201
Paul Good
Africa
Recolonized? 229
Basil
Davidson
Twilight
of Our Past: Reflections on the Origins of
Black History 261
Sterling
Stuckey
From A Black
Perspective: The Poetry of Don L. Lee
297
Paula
Giddings
Technology & Ethos
319
Imamu Amiri
Baraka
A
Portfolio of Photographs
323
Carl Van Vechten |
posted 11 September 2006
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update 1 August
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