Everything But the Burden: What White People are Taking from Black CultureGreg Tate The author of "Flyboy in the Buttermilk" brings together voices from music, popular culture, the literary world and the media speaking about how, from Brooklyn to the Badlands, white people are co-opting black styles of music, dance, dress, and slang and appropriating them for themselves. |
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Page 57
... freedom . . . . That spirit lives in our people's songs in the sublime grandeur of ' Deep River , ' in the driving power of ' Jacob's Ladder , ' in the militancy of ' Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho , ' and in the poignant beauty of ...
... freedom . . . . That spirit lives in our people's songs in the sublime grandeur of ' Deep River , ' in the driving power of ' Jacob's Ladder , ' in the militancy of ' Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho , ' and in the poignant beauty of ...
Page 64
... freedom movement , especially in the South . They were moved by the freedom songs and the power of black wor- ship , they emulated the styles and speech of black youth , and they turned to groups such as the Black Panther Party as the ...
... freedom movement , especially in the South . They were moved by the freedom songs and the power of black wor- ship , they emulated the styles and speech of black youth , and they turned to groups such as the Black Panther Party as the ...
Page 174
... freedom fight- ers to the rank of icons like Mao Tse - tung , John F. Kennedy , André Malraux , Marilyn Monroe , James Dean , Malcolm X , Angela Davis , Che Guevara , and Fidel Castro . The Grins were important centers of social ...
... freedom fight- ers to the rank of icons like Mao Tse - tung , John F. Kennedy , André Malraux , Marilyn Monroe , James Dean , Malcolm X , Angela Davis , Che Guevara , and Fidel Castro . The Grins were important centers of social ...
Contents
Nigs R Us or How Blackfolk Became Fetish Objects by Greg Tate | 1 |
The New White Negro by Carl Hancock Rux | 15 |
Scenes from Umkovu a play by Eisa Davis | 39 |
Copyright | |
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