Amiri Baraka and the Congress of African People: History and Memory [Paperback]

This important look at CAP combines historical research and analysis with the author's first-hand experience with the organization, providing the first historical narrative of a consequential player in the Black Power Movement.Introduction 1. Born Into The Storm 2. Black Power 3. Founding Of The Congress Of African People. Emergence Of Amiri Baraka As Political Leader 4. The Black Arts Movement And And The Congress Of African People 5. Ideology And Ideological Development 6. Maulana Karenga  Imamu Baraka And Kawaida 7. Amina Baraka And The Women Of The Congress Of African People 8. Revolutionary Kawaida 9. The Congress Of African People And The United Front 10. Transition To Marxism 11. Black Marxist-Leninists-New Communist Movement 12. Transformed 13. Lessons References

'Amiri Baraka and the Congress of African People accomplishes two very important tasks. It provides us with intimate details about CAP, a group that has been underappreciated in histories of Black radical organizations. The second, and equally significant, task Simanga addresses is the proper placement of Amiri Baraka into the historical record. He skillfully contextualizes Baraka's importance to the Black freedom movement and demonstrates why he was one of its most creative and politically committed thinkers.' - Joseph Jordan, Director, Sonja Haynes Stone Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

Michael Simanga holds a doctorate in African American Studies from the Union Institute and University, USA and teaches in the Department of African American Studies at Georgia State University. He is the author of the novel In the Shadow of the Son (1998) and co-editor of 44 on 44 (2011).