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404:(1980) centers on a healing event that coincides with a community festival in a fictional city of Claybourne, Georgia. In the novel, minor characters use a blend of modern medical techniques alongside traditional folk medicines and remedies to help the central character, Velma, heal after a suicide attempt. Through the struggle of Velma and the other characters surrounding her, Bambara chronicles the deep psychological toll that African-American political and community organizers can suffer, especially women. Bambara continues to investigate ideas of illness and wellness in the black community with a call to action through her characters. "Velma (and by extension black women) must re-affirm healthy relationships with one another that create and sustain pathways towards wholeness and reprioritize black women's health in the larger domain of social justice movements." While 463:, whose music served not only as inspiration but provided a structural and aesthetic model for written forms as well. This is evident in her work through her development of non-linear "situations that build like improvisations to a melody" to focus on character and building a sense of place and atmosphere. Bambara also credited her strong-willed mother, Helen Bent Henderson Cade Brehon, who urged her and her brother Walter Cade (an established painter) to be proud of African-American culture and history. 383:, collected 15 of her short stories, written between 1960 and 1970. Most of these stories are told from a first-person point of view and are "written in rhythmic urban black English." The narrator is often a sassy young girl who is tough, brave, and caring and who "challenge the role of the female black victim". Bambara called her writing "upbeat" fiction. Among the stories included were " 190:
a member of the Dance Club of Queens College. She also took part in theater, where she was designated as stage manager and costume designer. Bambara was among those who participated in folk singing when it first emerged in the 1950s, when the songs had a political message inscribed in them. She graduated from
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Bambara attended Queens College in 1954, where almost the entire undergraduate student population was white. At first, she planned to become a doctor, but her passion for arts directed her to become an English major. As Bambara had a passion for jazz and different forms of art in general, she became
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Female protagonists and narrators dominate her writing, which was informed by radical feminism and firmly placed inside African-American culture, with its dialect, oral traditions and jazz techniques. Like other members of the Black Arts Movement, Bambara was heavily influenced by "Garveyites,
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and the emergence of black feminism. In her writings, she was inspired by New York's streets and its culture, where the culture influenced her due to her experience of the teachings of "Garveyites, Muslims, Pan-Africanists and Communists against the backdrop and the culture of jazz music". Her
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Bambara worked within black communities to create consciousness around ideas such as feminism and black awareness. As Bambara had become part of the faculty of City College, she strived to make it more inclusive. To do this, she wanted to add more classes, such as a nutrition course, to teach
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students more about their culture. Bambara also wanted to see a creation of an academy that generated an environment in which students could become more involved in learning more about political and social problems in the community as well as their culture.
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With her new name, she felt it represented "the accumulation of experiences", in which she had finally discovered her purpose in the world. In 1970, Bambara had a daughter, Karma Bene Bambara Smith, with her partner Gene Lewis, an actor and a family friend.
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Bambara participated in several community and activist organizations, and her work was influenced by the Civil Rights and Black Nationalist movements of the 1960s. In the early to mid-1970s, she traveled to Cuba along with Robert Cole,
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She taught English, published material and worked with SEEK's black theatre group. Bambara was also an English instructor for the New Careers Program of Newark, New Jersey, in 1969. She was made assistant professor of English at
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Bambara's work was explicitly political, concerned with injustice and oppression in general and with the fate of African-American communities and grassroots political organizations in particular.
230:, in 1964, while serving as program director of Colony Settlement House in Brooklyn. She also worked for New York social services and as a recreation director in the psychiatric ward of 415:, she focused on film and television production throughout the 1980s. From 1980 to 1988, she produced at least one film per year. Bambara wrote the script for Louis Massiah's 1986 film 789: 33: 1187: 2897: 432: 2561: 3458: 3443: 3089: 2343: 395:. This collection of short stories mirrored the behavior of Bambara, in which was described as "dramatic, often flamboyant, with a penchant for authentic emotion". 950: 2907: 1907: 257:(1977), where she also taught at the School of Social Work (until 1979). Bambara was production-artist-in-residence at Neighborhood Arts Center (1975–79), at 3186: 1255: 3313: 2480: 3059: 2837: 2746: 3343: 3328: 3234: 3215: 3008: 2827: 2476: 178:. At the age of six, she changed her name from Miltona to Toni, and then in 1970, changed her name to include the name of a West African ethnic group, 3278: 3238: 3210: 3191: 2792: 2777: 2751: 1971: 1639: 1500: 2992: 2125: 3155: 3094: 3074: 2887: 2706: 2248: 2059: 1903: 1779: 1664: 346:
and herself, as well as work by Bambara's students from the SEEK program, was the first feminist collection to focus on African-American women.
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From 1965 to 1969, she was with City College's "Search for Education, Elevation, Knowledge" (SEEK) program and helped with its development.
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on May 13, 1985. The film was a success, viewed at film festivals and airing on national public broadcasting channels.
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was her first novel, she won the American Book Award. In 1981, she also won the Langston Hughes Society Award.
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and students. She wrote the introduction for another groundbreaking feminist anthology by women of color,
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in 1969 and continued until 1974. She was visiting professor in Afro-American Studies at
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Muslims, Pan-Africanists, and Communists" in addition to modern jazz artists such as
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The Writer on Her Work: Contemporary Women Reflect on Their Art and Their Situation
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Bambara was posthumously inducted into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame in 2013.
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Deep Sightings & Rescue Missions: Fiction, Essays & Conversations
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Deep Sightings and Rescue Missions: Fiction, Essays and Conversations.
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in Atlanta between 1979 and 1981. It was called her masterpiece by
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in 1993 and two years later died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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on the Philadelphia headquarters of the black liberation group
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Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women.
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Toni Cade Bambara Biography/Criticism, Selected Bibliography
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Midnight Ramble: Oscar Micheaux and the Story of Race Movies
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Honey, Hush: An Anthology of African American Women's Humor
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A Joyous Revolt: Toni Cade Bambara, Writer and Activist
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Black Women Writers (1950–1980): A Critical Evaluation
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A Reader's Companion to the Short Story in English,
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The Norton Anthology of African American Literature
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Du Bois: A Biography in Four Voices 137:(March 25, 1939 – December 9, 1995), was an 3314:20th-century African-American women writers 1313:"Hall of Fame Honorees | Toni Cade Bambara" 157: 1545: 1531: 1254:. Knight-Ridder Tribune News. p. E4. 1137:: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( 809: 807: 710:W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography in Four Voices 679:Screenplay based on Toni Morrison's novel 31: 3344:20th-century American short story writers 3329:20th-century American non-fiction writers 1467:. University Press of Kentucky. pp.  1453: 1389:Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press. 1276:This list is compiled from Carol Franko: 1230: 716: 567:. City College of New York, 1964. 146 pp. 289:, where she conducted literary readings. 565:The American Adolescent Apprentice Novel 1392: 804: 685:. Sanger/Brooks Film Productions, 1984. 640: 503:(novel). New York: Random House, 1972. 3296: 1284:Greenwood Publishing, 2001, pp. 38–47. 1151: 1145: 918:. Santa Barbara, California: Praeger. 913: 884:from the original on September 8, 2018 836: 760:from the original on September 8, 2018 655:National Educational Television, 1972. 573:. Institute of Southern Studies, 1975. 548:(novel). New York: Random House, 1980. 3409:American women documentary filmmakers 3349:20th-century American women academics 3319:20th-century African-American writers 1526: 1245: 1177: 1097: 1095: 1093: 1091: 1089: 973: 778:Goodnough, Abby (December 11, 1995). 629:New York: New American Library, 1970. 605: 411:After the publication and success of 3379:African-American short story writers 990: 988: 969: 967: 909: 907: 905: 903: 901: 899: 868: 866: 864: 832: 830: 828: 704:: Master Tactician of Direct Action. 281:. Bambara also held lectures at the 3354:20th-century American women writers 1280:In: Eric Fallon, and others (eds), 849:from the original on August 3, 2018 746:Yoo, Jiwon Amy (October 19, 2009), 745: 673:. K. Heran Productions, Inc., 1982. 13: 3439:Deaths from cancer in Pennsylvania 3429:American women short story writers 3414:American women non-fiction writers 1376: 1246:Trent, Sydney (January 12, 1997). 1086: 634:Tales and Stories for Black Folks. 554:(novel), New York: Pantheon, 1999. 316: 14: 3485: 1494: 1258:from the original on May 17, 2022 1209:Waller-Peterson, Belinda (2019). 1190:from the original on May 17, 2019 1178:Ellis, Lyndsey (March 23, 2018). 1152:Clarke, Cheryl (March 25, 2014). 985: 964: 896: 861: 837:Reuben, Paul (October 21, 2016). 825: 792:from the original on July 5, 2019 691:Public Broadcasting System, 1985. 636:Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1971. 269:(1978–79). From 1986, she taught 209: 667:American Broadcasting Co., 1981. 348:Tales and Stories for Black Folk 321:Bambara was active in the 1960s 162:Miltona Mirkin Cade was born in 3454:Novelists from New York (state) 3434:City College of New York alumni 3394:American documentary filmmakers 3334:20th-century American novelists 3324:20th-century American educators 1306: 1287: 1270: 1239: 1202: 1171: 1061: 1036: 1020: 996:Encyclopedia of world biography 874:"Toni Cade Bambara (1939–1995)" 839:"Toni Cade Bambara (1939−1995)" 748:"Toni Cade Bambara (1939–1995)" 571:Southern Black Utterances Today 489: 1465:American Women Writing Fiction 1105:; Valerie Smith, eds. 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Temple University Press. 1266:– via Newspapers.com. 946:Jones, Jae (May 13, 2017), 697:WHYY-TV Philadelphia, 1986. 599:This Bridge Called My Back. 438:murder of 40 black children 417:The Bombing of Osage Avenue 299: 292:Bambara was diagnosed with 10: 3490: 3469:Writers from New York City 3369:African-American novelists 3364:African-American feminists 2954:Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni 706:WHY-TV Philadelphia, 1987. 508:Blues Ain't No Mockin Bird 494: 421:the massive police assault 385:Blues Ain't No Mockin Bird 365:This Bridge Called My Back 277:'s Scribe Video Center in 104:Blues Ain't No Mockin Bird 69:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 3169: 3111:Allison Adelle Hedge Coke 3103: 3022: 2931: 2846: 2770: 2686: 2587: 2489: 2390:Barbara Grizzuti Harrison 2377: 2286: 2193: 2103: 2033: 1931: 1838: 1800:Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn 1767: 1683: 1612: 1561: 1363:Resources in your library 1344:Resources in your library 1299:December 7, 2019, at the 1044:"Toni Cade Bambara Facts" 1029:, Hall of Fame Honorees, 615:New York: Pantheon, 1996. 350:(1971) contained work by 265:(1976), and at Atlanta's 120: 98: 75: 58: 39: 30: 23: 3419:American women novelists 2349:Josephine Gattuso Hendin 611:Toni Morrison (editor): 474:documentary series with 158:Early life and education 2176:Septima Poinsette Clark 2166:Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum 1507:The Black Arts Movement 1503:. Voices from the Gaps. 625:as Toni Cade (editor): 601:Persephone Press, 1981. 466:Bambara contributed to 287:Smithsonian Institution 149:and college professor. 3374:African-American poets 1785:Evangelina Vigil-Piñón 1394:Griffin, Farah Jasmine 1318:March 6, 2017, at the 1103:Gates, Henry Louis Jr. 953:March 6, 2017, at the 843:www.paulreuben.website 717:Awards and recognition 584:Salvation Is the Issue 228:City College, New York 85:documentary-film maker 3384:American anthologists 2620:José Antonio Burciaga 2595:A'Lelia Perry Bundles 2567:Nora Marks Dauenhauer 1885:Mei-mei Berssenbrugge 1749:Ronald Phillip Tanaka 1589:Mei-mei Berssenbrugge 1412:10.1353/cal.1996.0048 1031:University of Georgia 379:Bambara's 1972 book, 232:Metropolitan Hospital 3424:American women poets 3197:E. Donald Two-Rivers 3070:Shirley Geok-lin Lim 3045:Guillermo Gómez-Peña 2732:Francisco X. Alarcón 2605:Benjamin Alire Sáenz 2473:Shirley Geok-lin Lim 2434:José Emilio González 2369:William Minoru Hohri 2339:J. California Cooper 2180:Cynthia Stokes Brown 2000:Robert Edward Duncan 1908:Ellen Lai-shan Yeung 1630:Bienvenido N. Santos 1554:American Book Awards 1519:, November 21, 2014. 1455:Vertreace, Martha M. 1357:By Toni Cade Bambara 880:. October 19, 2009. 649:WGBH-TV Boston, 1971 641:Produced screenplays 2798:Janet Campbell Hale 2542:Karen Tei Yamashita 2454:Michelle T. Clinton 2294:Alma Luz Villanueva 2231:Jimmy Santiago Baca 2161:Juan Felipe Herrera 1900:Ruthanne Lum McCunn 1744:Lorna Dee Cervantes 1584:Leslie Marmon Silko 1556:winners (1980–1999) 1406:(2): viii, 229–31. 1383:Cooper, Brittney C. 1232:10.3390/rel10040263 1069:"Toni Cade Bambara" 1027:"Toni Cade Bambara" 975:Dance, Daryl Cumber 472:American Experience 419:, which dealt with 323:Black Arts Movement 283:Library of Congress 273:-script writing at 135:Miltona Mirkin Cade 54:New York City, U.S. 43:Miltona Mirkin Cade 3399:American feminists 3259:Luís Alberto Urrea 3121:Brenda Marie Osbey 2808:Lawson Fusao Inada 2665:Verlyn Klinkenborg 2571:Richard Dauenhauer 2532:John Edgar Wideman 2481:Margarita Donnelly 2050:Gloria E. Anzaldúa 1953:Colleen J. McElroy 1948:John Kuo Wei Tchen 1923:William J. Kennedy 1918:Venkatesh Kulkarni 1865:Imamu Amiri Baraka 1734:Joyce Carol Thomas 1278:Toni Cade Bambara. 785:The New York Times 671:Epitaph for Willie 653:The Johnson Girls. 606:Collected writings 368:(1981), edited by 263:Columbia, Missouri 255:Atlanta University 247:Livingston College 243:Rutgers University 204:English Literature 168:Bedford Stuyvesant 88:political activist 3291: 3290: 3060:Montserrat Fontes 2959:E.J. Miller Laino 2854:Abraham Rodriguez 2838:Virginia L. Kroll 2747:Leroy V. Quintana 2727:Eugene B. Redmond 2703:Christopher Mogil 2670:William B. Branch 2645:Peter Kalifornsky 2579:Thomas Centolella 2497:Alejandro Murguía 2444:Lloyd A. Thompson 2359:Shuntaro Tanikawa 2329:Henry Louis Gates 2264:Salvatore La Puma 1775:Barbara Christian 1729:Jerome Rothenberg 1711:Hilton Obenzinger 1675:Toni Cade Bambara 1517:The Feminist Wire 1335:Toni Cade Bambara 1330:Library resources 1158:The Feminist Wire 448:(Vintage, 1996). 358:, Pearl Crayton, 131:Toni Cade Bambara 128: 127: 25:Toni Cade Bambara 3481: 3249:Josip Novakovich 3235:Gerald V. Mohatt 3226:James D. Houston 3216:Gioia Timpanelli 3202:Edwidge Danticat 3146:Nora Okja Keller 3136:John A. Williams 3090:William M. Banks 3009:Stephanie Cowell 2918:Gordon Henry Jr. 2828:Rose L. Glickman 2610:Donna J. Haraway 2575:R. Baxter Miller 2557:Meridel Le Sueur 2527:Jessica Hagedorn 2512:Charley Trujillo 2477:Mayumi Tsutakawa 2468:Paula Gunn Allen 2424:J. Raymond Jones 2415:James M. 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Index


Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Blues Ain't No Mockin Bird
The Salt Eaters
African-American
documentary film
social activist
Harlem
Bedford Stuyvesant
Queens
New Jersey
Bambara
Queens College
B.A.
Theater Arts
English Literature
mime
Ecole de Mime Etienne Decroux
Paris
City College, New York
Metropolitan Hospital
Rutgers University
Livingston College
Emory University
Atlanta University
Stephens College
Columbia, Missouri
Spelman College
film
Louis Massiah

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