| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xxi, 324 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-302) and index. |
| Summary |
A young critic's essays on race and culture, from Toni Morrison to trap. -- adapted from back cover. |
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"This is a very smart and soulful book. Jesse McCarthy is a terrific essayist." --Zadie Smith. A supremely talented young critic's essays on race and culture, from Toni Morrison to trap, herald the arrival of a major new voice in American letters. |
| Contents |
The master's tools -- The origin of others -- Venus and the angel of history -- The low end theory -- Black Dada nihilismus -- To make a poet black -- Back in the day -- Notes on trap -- An open letter to D'Angelo -- Language and the black intellectual tradition -- Underground man -- Fathers and sons -- The protest poets -- On Afropessimism -- Who will pay reparations on my soul? -- The work of art in the age of spectacular reproduction -- What is a cafe? -- In the zone -- The time of the assassins -- Harlem is everywhere. |
| Subject |
Racial justice.
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Racism.
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Racial justice. (OCoLC)fst02021735
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| Genre/Form |
Essays.
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Essays. (OCoLC)fst01919922
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| ISBN |
9781631496486 (hardcover) |
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1631496484 (hardcover) |
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