Portrait of Black novelist Ishmael Reed, at his home in Oakland, CA, 1983. (Photo by Anthony Barboza/Getty Images)
“American cultural institutions seem so bent on preserving the values of ‘Western civilization,’ the mythical ‘Whitetown,’ that we learn about one another's cultures the same way we learn about sex: in the streets.”
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#writer #quote
#botd February 22, 1938
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#BlackHistoryMonth
Ishmael Reed è una figura chiave nella storia della cultura afroamericana. La sua prosa ritmica e libera come una preziosa follia jazz lo ha reso uno degli autori che meglio hanno saputo spiegare i miti ancestrali della storia nera con le scommesse più all’avanguardia.
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A screenshot of an article where people comment on their favorite Pynchon moments: Ishmael Reed Novelist I don’t know why “Against the Day” hasn’t been banned. In one of the most remarkable scenes penned by an American writer, Pynchon cites events that the anti-woke crowd would want deleted. Referring to the Blacks and Filipinos, Mexicans and hillbillies who are present in that scene, the character Lew Basnight “gradually understood that what everybody here had in common was having survived some cataclysm none of them spoke about directly — a bombing, a massacre perhaps at the behest of the U.S. government.” Those with prominent media megaphones today are denying that such cataclysms took place.
Ishmael Reed on his favorite Pynchon moment.
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Ishmael Reed
#Écrivain ✍🏽
2015
a #écrit et #produit - à New York -
une #satire intitulée :
«The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Maranda»
👌🏾 On peut lire l' #article de #IshmaelReed dans WHY NO CONFEDERATE STATUES IN MEXICO publié par #Livres #Baraka #Inc.
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Ishmael Reed circa 1974 discussing Neo-Hoodoo and his legendary novel "Mumbo Jumbo"... He says James Weldon Johnson said that no one knew where ragtime came from, it "jesgrew". #jazz #novel #IshmaelReed
#IshmaelReed 's tribute to #PabloNeruda and the Chilean Republic
Three documents in pile. Left, June 10, 1975 postcard to Bertolino; right, postcard with color illustration of New Hampshire "Greetings from New Hampshire"; on top of postcard back top, handwritten thank you note to Jim on deep green paper.
#IshmaelReed is American #poet & #novelist w satirical work on #AfricanAmerican life. #Pulitzer & #NationalBookAward nominee, also earned fellowships from #NEA & #Guggenheim. In the 1970s, edited for #smallpresses like Yardbird Reader.
bit.ly/aspace-james... #NationalPoetryMonth #JamesBertolino
Supporting #black #authors & flooding #google with searches for only black artists after it changed its calendar
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