American Literature / Unit 17 AML 1624 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Black Arts Movement
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The idea
The witness records that Amiri Baraka started the Black Arts Repertory Theater in Harlem by nineteen sixty-five and portrayed Black nationalist views of racism in plays such as Dutchman, in which a white woman flirts with and then kills a young Black man on a subway.
In practice
A Harlem theatre, and a subway car.
Where people slip
Baraka changed his name more than once.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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