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Also Known As	Ishmael Scott Reed
Born	February 22, 1938 (age 88) • Chattanooga • Tennessee
Notable Works	“Barack Obama and the Jim Crow Media” • “Conjugating Hindi” • “Flight to Canada” • “Going Too Far: Essays About America’s Nervous Breakdown” • “Japanese by Spring” • “Juice!” • “Mumbo Jumbo” • “The Complete Muhammad Ali” • “The Free-Lance Pallbearers” • “The Last Days of Louisiana Red” • “The Terrible Threes” • “The Terrible Twos” • “Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down”
Movement / Style	Black Arts movement