ISBN:
0679442022
Language:
English
Pages:
xvii, 267 p
,
25 cm
Edition:
1st ed
DDC:
305.896073009049
Keywords:
African Americans
;
United States
;
Race relations
;
United States
;
Politics and government
;
1989-1993
;
United States
;
Politics and government
;
1993-2001
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction: Blues to you, part II -- pt. 1. From here to the horizon : how it goes : Blues to be constitutional -- Blues-collar clarity -- Do the afrocentric hustle -- Who are we? Where did we come from? Where are we going? -- The B & J blues -- Unity '94 blues, part I -- Unity '94 blues, part II -- Black power redux blues -- Wee wee wee blues -- Dumb bell blues -- Another long drink of the blues : the race card in the Simpson case -- pt. 2. For Ralphus: How long? So long -- The measure of the Oklahoma kid -- Barbarous on either side : the New York blues of Mr. Sammler's planet -- An introduction to Gerald Early -- Beyond American tribalism -- How did they lift my loot? : Barbara Probst Solomon's transcendent detective story -- An introduction to Martha Bayles -- Blues for Jackie -- pt. 3. The mighty sound and swine and transcendence: Martin's tempo -- Beale street redux : Tom Cat blues & passing for white blues -- Bigger Jim's Duke -- On the corner : the sellout of Miles Davis -- Dizzy Gillespie -- True blue rebels -- In this house, on this morning -- pt. 4. Off the wall : movies -- Toward a cinematic language of democracy -- Menace II society -- Harlem on our minds -- Eggplant blues : the miscegenated cinema of Quentin Tarantino -- pt. 5. Diminuendo and crescendo : out-chorus on a long, long line: Melting down the iron suits of history.
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction:Blues to you, part II -- pt. 1.From here to the horizon : how it goes :Blues to be constitutional -- Blues-collar clarity -- Do the afrocentric hustle -- Who are we? Where did we come from? Where are we going? -- The B & J blues -- Unity '94 blues, part I -- Unity '94 blues, part II -- Black power redux blues -- Wee wee wee blues -- Dumb bell blues -- Another long drink of the blues : the race card in the Simpson case -- pt. 2.For Ralphus:How long? So long -- The measure of the Oklahoma kid -- Barbarous on either side : the New York blues of Mr. Sammler's planet -- An introduction to Gerald Early -- Beyond American tribalism -- How did they lift my loot? : Barbara Probst Solomon's transcendent detective story -- An introduction to Martha Bayles -- Blues for Jackie -- pt. 3.The mighty sound and swine and transcendence:Martin's tempo -- Beale street redux : Tom Cat blues & passing for white blues -- Bigger Jim's Duke -- On the corner : the sellout of Miles Davis -- Dizzy Gillespie -- True blue rebels -- In this house, on this morning -- pt. 4.Off the wall : movies -- Toward a cinematic language of democracy -- Menace II society -- Harlem on our minds -- Eggplant blues : the miscegenated cinema of Quentin Tarantino -- pt. 5.Diminuendo and crescendo : out-chorus on a long, long line:Melting down the iron suits of history.
Note:
Includes index
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/random049/95010142.html
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/random049/95010142.html
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