Post-Soul Nation: The Explosive, Contradictory, Triumphant, and Tragic 1980s as Experienced by Afr ican Americans (Previously Known as Blacks and Before That Negroes)One of the foremost chroniclers of the contemporary black experience offers an undeluded perspective on the 1980s. Here are crack, AIDS, and the Reagan rollback of the major advances of the civil rights movement. But Nelson George also shows how black performers, athletes, and activists made increasing inroads into the mainstream. This fast-paced, chronological retrospective profiles personalities from Bill Cosby to Louis Farrakhan and explores such flashpoints as the first rap single and the infamous Willie Horton ad campaign. On the web: http://www.nelsongeorge.com/ |
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... style of pop music but the entire heritage and culture of blacks (or Negroes or colored or Afro-Americans, depending on the year and context). We became “soul sistas” and “soul brothers” who dined on “soul food,” exchanged “soul shakes ...
... style of pop music but the entire heritage and culture of blacks (or Negroes or colored or Afro-Americans, depending on the year and context). We became “soul sistas” and “soul brothers” who dined on “soul food,” exchanged “soul shakes ...
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... style with no narrator, Streetcorner Stories captures the rhythms and rituals of black working-class life by the careful accumulation of detail. Hudlin opens with a quote from Ralph Ellison about the “tragic comic” quality of the blues ...
... style with no narrator, Streetcorner Stories captures the rhythms and rituals of black working-class life by the careful accumulation of detail. Hudlin opens with a quote from Ralph Ellison about the “tragic comic” quality of the blues ...
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... style that's been popular in New York area parks and clubs for several years. Though it will evolve and, eventually ... styles. Halfway across the country, Frankie Knuckles, a black gay DJ from New York and intimate of Levan, spins at a ...
... style that's been popular in New York area parks and clubs for several years. Though it will evolve and, eventually ... styles. Halfway across the country, Frankie Knuckles, a black gay DJ from New York and intimate of Levan, spins at a ...
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... style, was a hairstyle intended to flaunt black pride. White women everywhere (albeit briefly) go to hair salons to get that “Bo Derek look.” A black cultural phenomenon is adopted by a white sponsor and spreads across the country—an ...
... style, was a hairstyle intended to flaunt black pride. White women everywhere (albeit briefly) go to hair salons to get that “Bo Derek look.” A black cultural phenomenon is adopted by a white sponsor and spreads across the country—an ...
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... style civil rights movement is viewed as largely irrelevant by Reagan, whose idea of spirituality in the public sphere isn't defined by Martin Luther King but by Jerry Falwell's Christian right. When Reagan turns down an invitation to ...
... style civil rights movement is viewed as largely irrelevant by Reagan, whose idea of spirituality in the public sphere isn't defined by Martin Luther King but by Jerry Falwell's Christian right. When Reagan turns down an invitation to ...
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