This development signified also that jazz would someday have to contend with the idea of its being an art (since that was the white man's only way into it). The emergence of the white player meant that Afro-American culture had already become the expression of a particular kind of American experience, and what is most important, that this experience was available intellectually, that it could be learned.

He received the PEN Open Book Award formerly known as the Beyond Margins Award in 2008 for Tales of the Out and the Gone. Himself
Motherland (2010). His father Coyt Leverette Jones worked as a postal supervisor and lift operator.

He received the PEN Open Book Award formerly known as the Beyond Margins Award in 2008 for Tales of the Out and the Gone. Along with James Baldwin Baraka was one of the most respected and most widely publiAmiri Barakad Black writers of his generation.