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  • Chapter 15 - Black Power and Black Arts

  • from Part II - Historical, Political, and Cultural Contexts
  • Edited by Paul Devlin, United States Merchant Marine Academy, New York
  • Book:
    Ralph Ellison in Context
    Published online:
    14 January 2022
    Print publication:
    02 December 2021, pp 167-176

  • Summary

    This chapter explores Ellison’s critical engagement with the black cultural radicalisms of the Black Power era (c. 1965-75). The chapter’s main focus is Ellison’s response to the writer-activist Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones). For Ellison, the work of 1960s black radicals was an unwarranted, even unprincipled refusal of the promise of American cultural pluralism, a promise that blacks themselves had long struggled mightily to fulfill. But Baraka’s generation had reckoned seriously with pluralism; it was not simply Black Power’s other. Indeed, a number of Baraka’s contemporaries embraced Ellison’s pluralist interventions as a usable black past.