In the Crazy House Called America: Essays

Castro Valley, Calif: Black Bird Press, 2002. 1st ed; first printing (stated). vi, 204 pages; 21 cm. A fine(-) nearly as new copy, with slight rubbing and a tiny crease to bottom front edge. Paperback. ISBN: 0964067218; 9780964067219

"Marvin X (born Marvin Ellis Jackmon; May 29, 1944) is a poet, playwright and essayist. ... His work has been associated with the Black Arts/Black Aesthetics Movement of the 1960s. He grew up in Fresno and Oakland, in an activist household. He graduated from Thomas Alva Edison High School in Fresno in 1962. His parents published the Black-owned paper of Fresno, California, called the Fresno Voice. ....Because of his affiliations with Black Panther activists of the day (Huey P. Newton, Bobby Seale and Eldridge Cleaver) and his work in Black theater with Ed Bullins, X is considered one of the major essayists and playwrights of the Black Aesthetics Movement. He attended Merritt College, where he met Newton and Seale, and received his BA and MA in English from San Francisco State University. ... X emerged as an important voice in the Black Arts Movement (BAM), the artistic arm of the Black Power movement, in the mid-to-late 1960s. .... He also co-founded, with playwright Ed Bullins and others, two of BAM's premier West Coast headquarters and venues — Oakland's Black House and San Francisco's Black Arts/West Theatre. In 1967, X joined the Nation of Islam and became known as El Muhajir. In 1999, he founded San Francisco's Recovery Theatre. ...He has taught Black Studies, drama, creative writing, journalism, English and Arabic at a variety of California universities and colleges." —Wikipedia. ¶ African American authors -- Biography. Essays -- African American authors. Noirs américains -- Conditions sociales. Écrivains noirs américains -- Biographies. African American authors. African Americans -- Social conditions. Biographies.