• Thumbnail for Ishmael Reed
    Ishmael Scott Reed (born February 22, 1938) is an American poet, novelist, essayist, songwriter, composer, playwright, editor and publisher known for his...
    63 KB (7,273 words) - 01:09, 17 August 2024
  • youth and community arts projects. Blank is editorial director of the Ishmael Reed Publishing Company, and has also lectured at such educational institutions...
    29 KB (2,979 words) - 23:45, 24 October 2024
  • Federation since 1995 Ishmael Reed (born 1938), American poet, essayist and novelist Nola Ishmael (born 1943), Barbadian nurse Prophet Ishmael, Zimbabwean religious...
    2 KB (314 words) - 05:15, 13 July 2024
  • The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda is a satire play by American writer Ishmael Reed. It critiques the acclaimed historical musical Hamilton (2015) through...
    17 KB (2,042 words) - 00:29, 21 September 2024
  • Mumbo Jumbo (novel) (category Novels by Ishmael Reed)
    Mumbo Jumbo is a 1972 novel by African-American author Ishmael Reed, originally published by Doubleday in New York. The novel has remained continuously...
    18 KB (2,423 words) - 23:14, 17 May 2024
  • described as a "meta soap opera" directed by Bill Gunn and written by Ishmael Reed that depicts the life and personal relationships of an African American...
    5 KB (562 words) - 20:53, 20 July 2024
  • Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down (category Novels by Ishmael Reed)
    by the African-American writer Ishmael Reed. It is a satirical take on the traditional Western. It is Ishmael Reed's second novel, following The Freelance...
    17 KB (2,368 words) - 17:39, 8 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Richard Pryor
    himself in the counterculture and met people like Huey P. Newton and Ishmael Reed. In the 1970s, Pryor wrote for television shows such as Sanford and Son...
    81 KB (7,652 words) - 13:34, 28 October 2024
  • specifically Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston and Ishmael Reed. Gates' title alludes to the song "Signifyin' Monkey" by Oscar Brown...
    6 KB (730 words) - 19:11, 2 November 2024
  • Sharp 1983 Nona, Nona Hendryx 1984 "Conjure - Music For The Texts Of Ishmael Reed", Conjure 1985 The African Flower, James Newton 1985 The Sixth Sense...
    8 KB (752 words) - 09:05, 15 August 2024
  • Pynchon, John Barth, Donald Barthelme, William H. Gass, Robert Coover, and Ishmael Reed. Historiographic metafiction Metahistorical romance Abrams, M. H. (2005)...
    3 KB (251 words) - 08:28, 21 August 2024
  • Flight to Canada (novel) (category Novels by Ishmael Reed)
    Flight to Canada is a 1976 novel by African-American author Ishmael Reed. Set in the last years of the American Civil War and its aftermath, the story...
    2 KB (146 words) - 08:09, 26 July 2024
  • The Terrible Twos, an American children's music band A 1982 novel by Ishmael Reed A book by Sarah Kennedy The Terrible Two, a 2018 American film written...
    451 bytes (96 words) - 23:34, 26 January 2022
  • food from the Southern United States Yardbird Reader, journal edited by Ishmael Reed from 1972 to 1976 The Yardbirds, a British psychedelic band Roger the...
    861 bytes (136 words) - 18:59, 30 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pictogram
    com. Reed 2003, p. xix "Understanding pictograms". BBC — Skillswise. Archived from the original on 2013-12-29. Retrieved 2014-05-11. Reed, Ishmael (2003)...
    13 KB (1,235 words) - 12:08, 23 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hamilton (musical)
    characters in the show. Monteiro identified other commentators, such as Ishmael Reed, who criticized the show for making Hamilton and other historical personages...
    215 KB (18,179 words) - 18:48, 2 November 2024
  • Before Columbus Foundation is a nonprofit organization founded in 1976 by Ishmael Reed, "dedicated to the promotion and dissemination of contemporary American...
    6 KB (548 words) - 21:37, 18 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Mumbo jumbo (phrase)
    protagonist whose parents are named "Black Mumbo" and "Black Jumbo". In 1972, Ishmael Reed wrote a postmodern novel titled Mumbo Jumbo which addresses a wide array...
    9 KB (1,160 words) - 13:10, 13 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Grace Wales Bonner
    the wall, as well as footage of African-American writer Ishmael Reed. At the show's opening, Reed performed and Okri recited a poem written for the occasion...
    11 KB (997 words) - 12:23, 10 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hoodoo (spirituality)
    Rushdy, Ashraf H. A. ""Ishmael Reed's Neo-HooDoo Slave Narrative."". Narrative. 2 (1994): 133. Rushdy, Ashraf H.A. ""Ishmael Reed's Neo-HooDoo Slave Narrative""...
    269 KB (30,995 words) - 19:18, 30 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Black Arts Movement
    critiques; Ishmael Reed, author of Neo-HooDoo Manifesto, argues for artistic freedom, ultimately against Karenga's idea of the Black Aesthetic, which Reed finds...
    53 KB (7,039 words) - 05:47, 3 November 2024
  • feminist message in syrupy Disney-like sentimentality. Black author Ishmael Reed... called the book a near-criminal assault on black family life and heterosexual...
    48 KB (4,661 words) - 17:22, 2 November 2024
  • Japanese by Spring (category Novels by Ishmael Reed)
    Japanese by Spring is a 1993 novel by American author Ishmael Reed. It is a campus novel and satire of American university culture, particularly the culture...
    9 KB (1,110 words) - 03:46, 20 April 2023
  • Thumbnail for Taj Mahal (musician)
    1970 – Fill Your Head With Rock 1985 – Conjure: Music for the Texts of Ishmael Reed 1990 – The Hot Spot – original soundtrack 1991 – Vol Pour Sidney – one...
    39 KB (4,281 words) - 16:05, 24 October 2024
  • Charles Newman, Daniel Halpern, Gordon Lish, Harry Smith, Hugh Fox, Ishmael Reed, Joyce Carol Oates, Len Fulton, Leonard Randolph, Leslie Fiedler, Nona...
    5 KB (523 words) - 22:48, 1 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Leslie Fiedler
    Buffalo. Several famous writers such as Allen Ginsberg, Camille Paglia and Ishmael Reed paid homage to him and his works. Although some sources wrongly attribute...
    16 KB (1,740 words) - 07:35, 13 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Atenism
    Egypt, and Akhenaten is a victim of its mind control. American author Ishmael Reed develops a blend of real and imagined history involving an ancient monotheistic...
    24 KB (2,995 words) - 16:56, 31 October 2024
  • Alexander Prokhanov Thomas Pynchon Rexhep Qosja Raymond Queneau Ann Quin Ishmael Reed Adrienne Rich Tom Robbins Philip Roth Lev Rubinstein Salman Rushdie Joanna...
    7 KB (656 words) - 18:44, 29 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Charles Yu
    and also "took several poetry workshops with people like Thom Gunn and Ishmael Reed". He obtained his Juris Doctor from Columbia Law School. He has worked...
    27 KB (2,758 words) - 10:52, 27 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Amiri Baraka
    member of the Umbra Poets Workshop of emerging Black Nationalist writers (Ishmael Reed and Lorenzo Thomas, among others) on the Lower East Side (1962–65). His...
    78 KB (9,364 words) - 11:41, 31 October 2024