And the numerous amount of literature and plays he produced during each time period in his life. ... He also wrote a lot anti-semitic poetry at the same time. ... (Amiri Baraka Reader, pg. xxiv) Amiri is all about using poetry as a machine-gun, he once made a comment "we want poems that kill" (Amiri Baraka Reader, pg. xxv). ... The Black arts era, both in terms of creative and theoretical writing is the most important one in black literature since the Harlem Renaissance. ... At this time he and his wife changed their name to Immanu Amiri Baraka and Amina Baraka. ...

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But I never realized that the African-Americans of today still feel now, the way the African-Americans of that time felt towards the white-Americans. ... Hitler and the Nazi's transformed the fears, impulses, and dissatisfaction of the German masses into a subservient political machine, capable of systematic persecution and murder. ... During this time Hitler ordered great works of literature to be destroyed. ...

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But I never realized that the African-Americans of today still feel now, the way the African-Americans of that time felt towards the white-Americans. ... Hitler and the Nazi's transformed the fears, impulses, and dissatisfaction of the German masses into a subservient political machine, capable of systematic persecution and murder. ... During this time Hitler ordered great works of literature to be destroyed. ...

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What is now considered to be the Harlem Renaissance was termed the Negro Renaissance in its own time. ... During the early 1920's when Toomer was writing there was much emphasis on becoming a 'New Negro', forging a new identity for ones self through the mediums of literature, art and music. ...

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