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Books by Kalamu ya
Salaam
The Magic of JuJu: An Appreciation of the Black Arts
Movement /
360:
A Revolution of Black Poets
Everywhere Is Someplace Else: A Literary Anthology
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From A Bend in the River: 100 New Orleans Poets
Our Music Is No Accident /
What Is Life: Reclaiming the Black Blues Self
My Story My Song (CD)
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KALAMU
YA SALAAM
("Pen of Peace")
Kalamu ya Salaam was born Vallery Ferdinand III on March 24, 1947 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He
attended Carleton College (1964-1969), and Delgado Junior
College from which he earned an A.A. (Associate Arts) degree in
business administration.
Mr.
Salaam is a professional editor/writer, filmmaker,
producer and arts administrator.
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Books
The Blues Merchant (New Orleans: BLACKARTSOUTH, 1969)
Hofu Ni Kwenu (New Orleans: Ahidiana, 1973)
Pamoja Tutashinda (New Orleans: Ahidiana, 1974)
Ibura (New Orleans: Ahidiana, 1976)
Tearing the Roof Off the Sucker: the Fall of South Africa (New
Orleans: Ahidiana, 1977)
South African Showdown: Divestment Now (New Orleans:
Ahidiana, 1978)
Nuclear Power and The Black Liberation Struggle (New
Orleans: Ahidiana, 1978)
Revolutionary Love (New Orleans: Ahidiana, 1978)
Who Will Speak for Us? New Afrikan Folk Tales, by
Kalamu ya Salaam and Tayari kwa Salaam (New Orleans: Ahidiana,
1978)
Herufi: An Alphabet Reader (New Orleans: Ahidiana,
1978)
Iron Flowers: A Poetic Report on a Visit to Haiti (New
Orleans: Ahidiana, 1979)
Our Women Keep Our Skies From Falling (New Orleans:
Nkombo, 1980)
Play Productions
The Picket, New Orleans, Free Southern Theater, 1968
Mama, New Orleans, Free Southern Theater, 1969
Happy Birthday, Jesus. New Orleans, Free Southern
Theater, 1969
Black Liberation Army, New Orleans, Free Southern
Theater, 1969
Black Love Song, New Orleans, Free Southern Theater,
1970
The Quest, New Orleans, BLACKARTSOUTH, 1972
Somewhere in the World (Long Live Asatta), New
Orleans, Art For Life Theater Company, 1082
Other
Black Love Song #1, in Black Theater, U.S.A.,
edited by James V. Hatch and Ted Shine (New York: Free Press,
1974), pp. 864-874
Periodical Publications
Drama
The Destruction of the American Stage (A Set for
Non-Believers), Black World, 21 (April 1072): 54-69
Homecoming, Nkombo, no. 8 (August 1972): 3-15
The Turn of the Century. A set/for our rising . . . by
Salaam, Kwesi, and Nyumba, Nkomba, no 8 (August 1972):
43-58
Fiction
"Cutting the Body Loose," in What We Must See:
Young Black Storytellers, edited by Orde Coombs (New York:
Dodd & mead, 1971)
"Sister Bibi," in We Be Word Sorcerers: 25 Short
Stories by Black Americans, edited by Sonia Sanchez
NonFiction
"News from BLACKARTSOUTH," Black Theater,
mo. 4 (1970): 4
"On Black Theater in America: A Report," Negro
Digest, 19 (April 1970): 23-31
"Annual Black Theater Round-Up: New Orleans," Black
World, 21 (April 1972): 40-44
"Black Ritual Theater: The Destruction of the American
Stage: A Set for Non-Believers," Black World, 21
(April 1972): 54-69
"Three Recent Photo Books," Black World, 22
(August 1973): 80-86
"James Baldwin: Looking Toward the Eighties," Black
Collegiam, 10 (October/November 1979): 105-110
"Cuban Cinema," Black Scholar, 11, no. 3
(1980): 85-90
"Searching for the Mother Tongue: An Interview with Toni
Cade Bambara" Source:
Arthenia J. Bates Millican. "Kalamu ya
Salaam (Vallery Ferdinand III)." In Afro-American Writers
After 1955: Dramatists and Prose Writers. Edited by Thadious M.
Davis and Trudier Harris. Detroit, Michiagan, 1985
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Audio:
My Story, My Song (Featuring blues guitarist Walter Wolfman Washington)
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Hopes and Prospects
By Noam Chomsky
In this urgent new book, Noam Chomsky
surveys the dangers and prospects of our
early twenty-first century. Exploring
challenges such as the growing gap
between North and South, American
exceptionalism (including under
President Barack Obama), the fiascos of
Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S.-Israeli
assault on Gaza, and the recent
financial bailouts, he also sees hope
for the future and a way to move
forward—in the democratic wave in Latin
America and in the global solidarity
movements that suggest "real progress
toward freedom and justice." Hopes and
Prospects is essential reading for
anyone who is concerned about the
primary challenges still facing the
human race. "This is a classic Chomsky
work: a bonfire of myths and lies,
sophistries and delusions. Noam Chomsky
is an enduring inspiration all over the
world—to millions, I suspect—for the
simple reason that he is a truth-teller
on an epic scale. I salute him." —John
Pilger
In dissecting the rhetoric and logic of
American empire and class domination, at
home and abroad, Chomsky continues a
longstanding and crucial work of
elucidation and activism . . .the
writing remains unswervingly rational
and principled throughout, and lends
bracing impetus to the real alternatives
before us.—Publisher's
Weekly
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Blacks in Hispanic Literature: Critical Essays
Edited by
Miriam DeCosta-Willis
Blacks in Hispanic Literature is a
collection of fourteen essays by scholars and
creative writers from Africa and the Americas.
Called one of two significant critical works on
Afro-Hispanic literature to appear in the late
1970s, it includes the pioneering studies of
Carter G. Woodson and
Valaurez B. Spratlin, published in the 1930s, as
well as the essays of scholars whose interpretations
were shaped by the Black aesthetic. The early
essays, primarily of the Black-as-subject in Spanish
medieval and Golden Age literature, provide an
historical context for understanding 20th-century
creative works by African-descended, Hispanophone
writers, such as Cuban
Nicolás Guillén and Ecuadorean poet, novelist,
and scholar
Adalberto Ortiz, whose essay analyzes the
significance of Negritude in Latin America. This
collaborative text set the tone for later
conferences in which writers and scholars worked
together to promote, disseminate, and critique the
literature of Spanish-speaking people of African
descent. . . .
Cited by a
literary critic in 2004 as "the seminal study in the
field of Afro-Hispanic Literature . . . on which
most scholars in the field 'cut their teeth'."
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Arraignment and Indictment of White Civilization
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