Amiri Baraka from black arts movement to anti-Americanism

Abstract EN

The present study is an attempt to trace Amiri Baraka's contribution to the African-American arts.

It is that type of biographical researches which gather the main data about an influential figure for the sake of creating an account of the most significant events and contributions to a specific field.

Baraka was born in 1934 and died in 2014 and spent his life defending on the identity of the African-American people and arts.

The importance of the present study lies in how important was Baraka's works and deeds.

His ideologies and the way they ranged from Christianity to Islam, and from Marxism to Anti-Americanism can also be viewed as an important point of research.

Tracing Baraka's life, the present study reveals that although there were different turning points that completely changed his beliefs, the main stable attitude throughout his whole life was his attack against the US Administration and his advocacy to the African American people.