| Description |
xvii, 470 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 453-455) and index. |
| Contents |
The word movement / Kevin Powell -- pt. 1. Essays. Are black people cooler than white people? / Donnell Alexander -- GWTW / Hilton Als -- Race Matters- The chattering classes convene / Angela Ards -- In search of Alice Walker / Valerie Boyd -- Mama's girl / Veronica Chambers -- The visible man / Trey Ellis -- Return to the planet of the apes / Ekow Eshun -- The sports taboo: why blacks are like boys and whites are like girls / Malcolm Gladwell -- Are we Tiger Woods yet? / Lisa Jones -- On the disappearance of Joe Wood Jr. / Robin D. G. Kelley -- She and I / Bruce Morrow -- White Girl? / Lonnae O'Neal Parker -- What happens when your 'hood is the last stop on the white flight express? / Taigi Smith -- Texaco / Natasha Tarpley -- Speaking in Tongues / Toure -- Your friendly neighborhood jungle / Daniel J. Wideman -- pt. 2. Hip-Hop journalism. Hip-Hop Hi-Tech / Harry Allen -- Homophobia: Hip-Hop's black eye / Farai Chideya -- The Death of Rock n' Roll / Cheo Hodari Coker -- Confessions of a Hip-Hop critic / Dream Hampton -- Hip-hop feminist / Joan Morgan -- This is not a puff piece / Scott Poulson-Bryant -- Live from death row / Kevin Powell -- Hit 'em up: on the life and death of Tupac Shakur / Danyel Smith pt. 3. Criticism. Angles of Vision / Jabari Asim -- The soul of black talk / Erin Aubry -- Do books matter? / Kevin Baldeosingh -- The other side of paradise- Feminist pedagogy, Toni Morrison Iconography, and Oprah's Book Club phenomenon / Daphne A. Brooks -- She's gotta have it / Debra Dickerson -- No Entry / Lynell George -- What about black romance? /Esther Iverem-- "It be's that way sometimes 'cause I can't control the rhyme." - Notes from the post-soul intelligentsia / Mark Anthony Neal -- Facing Unknown Possibilities: Lance Jeffers and the black aesthetic / Howard Rambsy II. pt. 4. Fiction. The white boy shuffle / Paul Beatty -- Interpolation: Peace to my nine / Ricardo Cortez Cruz -- Epilogue: Women like us / Edwidge Danticat -- The Sun, the Moon, the Stars / Junot Diaz -- Prologue, 1963 / Tananarive Due -- The Emperor's babe / Bernardine Evaristo -- The missionary position / Christopher John Farley -- My Son, My Heart, My Life / John R. Keene -- The last integrationist / Jake Lamar -- Slave / Victor D. LaValle -- The famished road / Ben Okri -- Stigmata / Phyllis Alesia Perry -- The pagoda / Patricia Powell -- Face / Danzy Senna -- The peculiar second marriage of Archie Jones / Zadie Smith -- Baker / Lisa Teasley -- Rika / Jervey Tervalon -- Butterfly burning / Yvonne Vera -- The intuitionist / Colson Whitehead. |
| Subject |
Commonwealth literature (English) -- Black authors.
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American literature -- African American authors.
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African Americans -- Literary collections.
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English literature -- Black authors.
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Black people -- Literary collections.
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Commonwealth countries -- Literary collections.
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| Added Author |
Powell, Kevin, 1966-
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| ISBN |
0471380601 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780471380603 cloth alkaline paper |
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