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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... hair done . For several years , I'd been wearing it short , close to the scalp . I hadn't cut it in weeks , so it ... hair was combed , brushed , or washed , it would fall out in huge clumps . Not being a big fan of braids , I opted AFRO ...
... hair done . For several years , I'd been wearing it short , close to the scalp . I hadn't cut it in weeks , so it ... hair was combed , brushed , or washed , it would fall out in huge clumps . Not being a big fan of braids , I opted AFRO ...
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... hair with yarn . Starting from the scalp , she tightly wrapped strand after strand of the store - bought hair around the braids and the yarn , in much the same way one would wrap an Ace bandage around a sprained ankle . She then took ...
... hair with yarn . Starting from the scalp , she tightly wrapped strand after strand of the store - bought hair around the braids and the yarn , in much the same way one would wrap an Ace bandage around a sprained ankle . She then took ...
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... hair any way she wanted . So , now that I had come to a decision about the fate of Korama's hair , I had to come to one about the fate of my own . By the time the school year started , we were three months into our stay . My roots had ...
... hair any way she wanted . So , now that I had come to a decision about the fate of Korama's hair , I had to come to one about the fate of my own . By the time the school year started , we were three months into our stay . My roots had ...
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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