| Description |
1 online resource (290 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction. To Exterminate or Extirpate -- Part I. Land of Fluid Identities -- The Berryessas and Peraltas, Descendants of the California Resistance -- The Wrong Side of History. Who's Next? Are Gays the New Blacks? -- How I Became a Black Bogeyman and Survived to Tell the Tale -- Part 2. Culture -- Black Audiences, White Stars and Django Unchained -- Is Boardwalk Empire Trampling the Legacy of Marcus Garvey? -- Hamilton, An American Musical : Black Actors Dress Up like Slave Traders ... and It's Not Halloween -- Hamilton : The Revolution. Brilliant Show. Bad History -- Before the President There Was Mr. Tibbs -- Personal Problems : Interview by Violet Lucca, March 30, 2018 -- Buried Alive -- Mother Hubbard Goes to China -- LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka and Me -- Jazz Musicians as Pioneer Multi-Culturalists, the Co-Optation of Their Creations and the Reason Jazz Survives -- Sex, Africa and Chinua Achebe -- My Oldest White Friend, Oliver Clark : From U.B. to Broadway and Hollywood -- Part 3. Politics -- Who Owns Black Opinion? -- Fallacies of the Post-Race Presidency -- Trump's Anti-Black Animus and How the Media Armed His Hate -- Using Immigrants to Shame American Blacks -- Confessions of a Neighborhood Watch Captain -- White Nationalism's Last Stand -- Trump's Irish-Americans "Without Hearts" -- Do American Jews Still Believe They're White? -- Why We're Shocked by White Heroin Use -- Amid Mount Rushmore Warriors, Why Not a lover : Warren G. Harding? -- Part 4. Culture -- A Fly On Nicholas Kristof's Wall -- Fly On The Wall : Bad Apples Bar -- Fly On The Wall : Governor Huckabee Meets Beyoncé |
| Summary |
A collection of essays covering a wide range of topics by educator, poet, novelist, and songwriter Ishmael Reed |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO; viewed October 30, 2019) |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Literary collections
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African Americans
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Race relations
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Race relations.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140494
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| Subject |
United States
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Literary collections
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781771862028 |
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1771862025 |
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