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. |
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 |
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Everything But the Burden: What White People Are Taking from Black Culture Greg Tate Limited preview - 2003 |
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