{"id":708,"date":"2026-07-26T05:06:39","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T05:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=708"},"modified":"2026-07-26T05:06:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T05:06:39","slug":"this-week-in-nation-history-the-passion-of-amiri-baraka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=708","title":{"rendered":"This Week in \u2018Nation\u2019 History: The Passion of Amiri Baraka"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<div>\n<div>\n<article>\n<header>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Activism<\/li>\n<li>Books &amp; the Arts<\/li>\n<li>January 11, 2014<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>This Week in \u2018Nation\u2019 History: The Passion of Amiri Baraka<\/h1>\n<h1>This Week in \u2018Nation\u2019 History: The Passion of Amiri Baraka<\/h1>\n<h2>\n<p>We published some of his earliest poems as well as his great 1964 essay on Sonny Liston vs. Cassius Clay.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=706\">What J.M. Coetzee Can Teach Us About ICE<\/a><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<section>\n<time>January 11, 2014<\/time><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The brilliant and controversial poet, playright and activist Amiri Baraka, formerly known as LeRoi Jones, died on Thursday at age 79. In works like the poetry collection <em>Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note<\/em> (1961), the social history <em>Blues People <\/em>(1963) and the play <em>Dutchman <\/em>(1964), Jones celebrated the cultural achievements and the dignity of African-Americans while unblinkingly exposing the grave injustice of this country\u2019s condescending attitude towards and often-brutal treatment of his people. A complicated figure, Baraka has also been criticized for elements of anti-Semitism, misogyny and homophobia in his works. As the poet E. Ethelbert Miller, chairman of the board of the Institute for Policy Studies and a friend of <em>The Nation<\/em>, wrote in e-mail message:\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cOne cannot talk about black literature, black politics, black music, black theater or even blackness without mentioning the name Amiri Baraka\u2026. He was controversial at times because he was passionate and the times and our social condition demanded nothing less. Baraka taught us how to examine our beauty as well as our ugliness.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>The Nation<\/em> was one of the first major publications to publish Baraka\u2019s work, beginning with poems like \u201cThe Invention of Comics\u201d in 1962, \u201cAfter the Ball\u201d and \u201cTight Rope\u201d in 1963, and \u201cMorning Purpose\u201d in 1964, and our critics kept a close watch on his work. In a review of <em>Dutchman<\/em> in April 1964, longtime <em>Nation <\/em>drama critic Harold Clurman called Baraka, then LeRoi Jones, \u201can outstanding dramatist\u201d and \u201ca turbulent talent,\u201d noting, but not regretting, the troubling excesses which would later make his work so controversial. \u201cWhile turbulence is not always a sign of power or of valuable meaning,\u201d Clurman wrote, \u201cI have a hunch that LeRoi Jones\u2019s fire will burn ever higher and clearer if our theatre can furnish an adequate vessel to harbor his flame. We need it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Baraka\u2019s most memorable contribution to <em>The Nation<\/em> was the essay \u201c\u201d (June 29, 1964), about the fight between Cassius Clay and defending world champion Sonny Liston at Miami Beach that February. Later included in the collection <em>Burning All Illusions: Writings from <\/em>The Nation <em>on Race<\/em>, edited by Paula Giddings, the piece represents the best of Baraka\u2019s writing.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The mock contest [in 1962 and 1963] between Liston and Patterson was a \u2018brushfire\u2019 limited war, Neo-Colonial policy to confuse the issue. Patterson was to represent the fruit of the missionary ethic; he had found God, reversed his underprivileged (uncontrolled) violence, and turned it to work for the democratic liberal imperialist state. The hardy black Horatio Alger offering the glad hand of integration to welcome 20 million into the lunatic asylum of white America.<\/p>\n<section>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h2>Popular<\/h2>\n<p><span><span>&#8220;swipe left below to view more authors&#8221;<\/span>Swipe \u2192<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h3>\n<span>Impale and Cry: Christopher Nolan\u2019s \u201cThe Odyssey\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                Impale and Cry: Christopher Nolan\u2019s \u201cThe Odyssey\u201d<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<p>\nBooks &amp; the Arts<br \/>\n<span><br \/>\n                            \/<br \/>\n                        <\/span><br \/>\nChristian Lorentzen <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h3>\n<span>Andy Beshear Is What\u2019s Wrong With the Democratic Party in the Trump Era<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                Andy Beshear Is What\u2019s Wrong With the Democratic Party in the Trump Era<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<p>\nKali Holloway <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h3>\n<span>15 Years Ago, Anders Breivik Massacred 77 People. Norway Is Determined to Treat Him Humanely.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                15 Years Ago, Anders Breivik Massacred 77 People. Norway Is Determined to Treat Him Humanely.<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<p>\nJean Casella <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h3>\n<span>Here Comes the Inevitable Backlash to DSA\u2019s Rise<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                Here Comes the Inevitable Backlash to DSA\u2019s Rise<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<p>\nRoss Barkan <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p>In this context, Liston the unreformed, Liston the vulgar, Liston the violent, comes on as the straightup Heavy (who still had to make some gesture at the Christian ethic, like the quick trip to the Denver priest before the match, to see if somehow the chief whitie could turn him into a regular fella). \u201cThey\u201d painted Liston Black. They painted Patterson White. And that was the simple conflict. Which way would the black man go? This question traveled on all levels through the society, if anyone remembers. Pollsters wanted the colored man in the street\u2019s opinion. \u201cSir, who do you <em>hope<\/em> comes out on top in this fight?\u201d A lot of Negroes said Patterson. That old hope come back on you, that somehow this is my country, and ought\u2019n I be allowed to live in it, I mean, to make it. From the bottom to the top? Only the poorest black men have never fallen at least temporarily for the success story. And the poor whites still fall hard.\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The match meant most to the Liberal Missionaries. It was a chance to test their handiwork against this frightening brute. So a thin-willed lower-middle-class American was led to beatings just short of actual slaughter. Twice. And each time Patterson fell, a vision came to me of the whole colonial West crumbling in some sinister silence, like the across-the-tracks House of Usher\u2026\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But Liston, Jones wrote, \u201cis the big strong likable immigrant who has always done America\u2019s chores. He\u2019s glad to oblige.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>That leaves us with Cassius X. Back in the days when he was still Clay it was easy to see him as a boy manufactured by the Special Products Division of Madison Avenue. Now I think of him as merely a terribly stretched out young man with problems one hoped would have waited at least for him to reach full manhood. Clay is not a fake, and even his blustering and playground poetry are valid; they demonstrate that a new and more complicated generation has moved onto the scene. And in this last sense Clay is definitely my man. However, his choice of Elijah Muhammad over Malcolm X (if indeed such is the case) means that he is still a \u2018homeboy,\u2019 embracing the folksy vector straight out of the hard spiritualism of poor Negro aspiration. Cassius is right now just angry rather than intellectually (socio-politically) motivated.\u2026<\/p>\n<p>So what kind of men are these who practice such deception on themselves? Oh, they are simply Americans, and some years from now, perhaps there will be this short addition: \u201cyou remember them, don\u2019t you?\u201d\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In 1999, <em>The Nation<\/em> reprinted a speech Baraka had given at NYU the previous year at a memorial service for the poet Margaret Walker Alexander, who, Baraka said,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>remains part of our deepest and most glorious voice, dimensioned by history and musicked by vision. What she tells us in her books, with that voice of sun and sky, moon and stars, of lightning and thunder, is in that oldest voice of that first ancestor, who always be with us. That is what we people have, inside, to reach where Orpheus goes each night-end to raise the day again. That voice to keep us live and sane and strong and ready to fight and even ready to love.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p><em>Subscribers to <\/em>The Nation <em>can access our fully searchable digital archive, which contains thousands of historic articles, essays and reviews, letters to the editor and editorials dating back to July 6, 1865.<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=705\">What J.M. 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