He is in a real sense a political writer, but he distanced himself from the highly visible radical groups that dominated the media coverage of American politics during the 1960s, and that to a degree have continued to do so. As his fiction shows, he is alert to ways in which oppositional militants replicate the habits of their oppressors. Yet, he has shown remarkable resistance to cynicism; there is an enduringly affirmative element that forms the primary value of his work. Reed has affirmed that he writes religious books, and he has formulated his own aesthetic of Neo-HooDoo.
Ishmael Scott Reed was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on 22 February 1938 to Henry LeNoir, a fundraiser for the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA), and Thelma V.
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