Resources
Bibliography for Teachers
Auster, Al. “The Wiz: Review.” Cinéaste 9, no. 2 (1978-79): 41-42.
Baraka, Amiri. “The Legacy of Malcolm X, and the Coming of the Black Nation.” In The LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader, edited by William J. Harris, 161-170. New York: Thunder Mouth’s Press, 2000.
Benshoff, Harry M, and Sean Griffin. America on Film: Representing Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality at the Movies. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2004.
“Black Nationalism and Black Power.” Digital History. Last modified in 2016. http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=2&psid=3331.
Collins, Lisa Gail and Margo Natalie Crawford. “Introduction: Power to the People!: The Art of Black Power.” In New Thoughts on the Black Arts Movement, edited by Lisa Gail Collins and Margo Natalie Crawford, 1-19. New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2006.
Giovanni, Nikki. The Selected Poems of Nikki Giovanni. New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1996.
Housley, Jason. “Hollywood and the Civil Rights Movement.” Black Camera 19, no. 1 (2004): 7-8.
Howard, Adam. “How Lumet’s ‘The Wiz’ became a black cult classic.” The Grio. Last modified April 11, 2011. http://thegrio.com/2011/04/11/how-lumets-the-wiz-became-a-black-cult-classic/.
Jones, Feminista. “The Wiz, The Black Arts Movement, and Black Liberation.” Storify. Last modified December 3, 2015. https://storify.com/FeministaJones/the-wiz-the-black-arts-movement-and-black-liberati.
Keel, Abigail and Matt Kielty. Debatable. Podcast audio, 59:41, March 11, 2016, http://www.radiolab.org/story/debatable.
Linton, Curtis and Glenn E. Singleton. Courageous Conversations About Race. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press, 2006.
Lumet, Sidney and Dan Yakir. “Wiz Kid.” Film Comment 14, no. 6 (1978): 49-54.
Mance, Ajuan Maria. “‘The Same Old Danger/But a Brand New Pleasure’: The Black Arts Movement in the 21st Century.” Journal of African American Studies 8, no. 1/2 (2004): 90-107.
Moyer, Justin Wm. “How ‘The Wiz’ was inspired by the 1970s ‘est’ craze.” Thestar.com. Last modified April 3, 2015. https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2015/04/03/how-the-wiz-was-inspired-by-1970s-est-craze.html.
Neal, Larry. “The Black Arts Movement.” The Drama Review: TDR 12, no. 4 (1968): 28-39.
Scott-Heron, Gil. Now and Then: The Poems of Gil Scott-Heron. Edinburgh: Payback Press, 2000.
Smethurst, James Edward. The Black Arts Movement: Literary Nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2005.
Smith, David Lionel. “The Black Arts Movement and Its Critics.” American Literary History 3, no. 1 (1991): 93-110.
Sullivan, Megan. “African American Music as Rebellion: From Slavesong to Hip-Hop.”
“The Black Arts Movement (1965-1975).” Blackpast.org. Accessed August 5, 2016. http://www.blackpast.org/aah/black-arts-movement-1965-1975.
The Wiz. Directed by Sidney Lumet. 1978. Los Angeles, CA: Universal Studies Home Entertainment, 2009. DVD.
Williams, Rhonda. “The Wiz: American Culture at Its Best.” In The Universe of Oz: Essays on Baum’s Series and Its Progeny, edited by Kevin K. Durand and Mary K. Leigh, 189-197. New York: McFarland, 2010.
Reading List for Students
It would be impossible to create a list of stellar Black Arts Movement poetry that feels complete. Below are suggested titles that can be used as alternatives to the poems featured in Lesson 2 or as enrichment for advanced learners.
Nikki Giovanni, from The Selected Poems of Nikki Giovanni
“My Poem”
“Beautiful Black Men (With compliments and apologies to all not mentioned by name)”
“Revolutionary Music”
“Dreams”
“Poem (No Name No. 3)”
“Black Separatism”
Amiri Baraka, from The LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader
“SOS”
“A Poem for Black Hearts”
“Return of the Native”
Gil Scott-Heron, from Now and Then: The Poems of Gil Scott-Heron
“Small Talk at 125th and Lenox”
“Winter in America”
“Inner City Blues”
“Dr King”
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