The Devil and Dave Chappelle: And Other Essays

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Basic Books, Mar 27, 2007 - Literary Collections - 336 pages
An unflinching collection of essays that takes on the subjects of Biggie Smalls, Three 6 Mafia, The King Family, and what it takes to be black at the turn of the twenty-first century.

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Contents

Troubling Waters
1
Cotton Comes to Washington
3
Shots
19
Copyright

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About the author (2007)

William Jelani Cobb, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of History at Spelman College, as well as a critic, essayist and fiction writer whose writings on politics, the African Diaspora and contemporary African American culture have appeared in a number of national outlets. His column “Past Imperfect” appears regularly on AOL BlackVoices. He is editor of The Essential Harold Cruse: A Reader, which was a Notable Book of the Year by Black Issues Book Review. His writing has appeared in The Washington Post, Essence, Emerge, The Progressive, The Washington City Paper, One Magazine and Alternet.org.

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