Amiri Baraka’s Legacy As An Urban Ethnographer
By Tanisha C. FordThe late writer’s first-hand accounts of racial, sexual, and cultural politics in 1960s Greenwich Village are groundbreaking.
Tanisha C. Ford is an assistant professor of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies at UMass Amherst. She is completing a book entitled “Liberated Threads: Black Women and the Politics of Adornment.”
The late writer’s first-hand accounts of racial, sexual, and cultural politics in 1960s Greenwich Village are groundbreaking.