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COVER PAGE
TITLE PAGE
COPYRIGHT PAGE
FOREWORD
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION: WHY I AM AN INTELLECTUAL
PART ONE: DYSONOGRAPHY
ONE: NOT FROM SOME ZEUS ’ SHEAD: MY INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT
TWO: LETTER TO MY BROTHER, EVERETT, IN PRISON
THREE: THIS I BELIEVE
PART TWO: THEORIES OF RACE
FOUR: THE LIBERAL THEORY OF RACE
FIVE: WHEN YOU’RE A CREDIT TO YOUR RACE, THE BILL WILL COME DUE: O.J. SIMPSON AND OUR TRIAL BY FIRE
PART THREE: AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
SIX: DEBATING AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
SEVEN: A REPRIEVE FOR AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
PART FOUR: MULTICULTURALISM
EIGHT: LEONARD JEFFRIES AND THE STRUGGLE FOR THE BLACK MIND
NINE: SHAKESPEARE AND SMOKEY ROBINSON: REVISITING THE CULTURE WARS
PART FIVE: WHITENESS STUDIES
TEN: THE LABOR OF WHITENESS, THE WHITENESS OF LABOR, AND THE PERILS OF WHITEWISHING
ELEVEN: GIVING WHITENESS A BLACK EYE
PART SIX: GENDER VIEWS
TWELVE: THE PLIGHT OF BLACK MEN
THIRTEEN: ANOTHER SATURDAY NIGHT, OR HAVE ALL THE BROTHERS GONE TO WHITE WOMEN?
FOURTEEN: IN O.J.’S SHADOW: KOBE BRYANT’S PREDICAMENT
PART SEVEN: AFRO-BAPTIST RADICALISM AND RHETORIC
FIFTEEN: “ GOD ALMIGHTY HAS SPOKEN FROM WASHINGTON, D.C. ”: AMERICAN SOCIETY AND CHRISTIAN FAITH
SIXTEEN: GARDNER TAYLOR: THE POET LAUREATE OF THE AMERICAN PULPIT
SEVENTEEN: “ SOMEWHERE I READ OF THE FREEDOM OF SPEECH ”: CONSTRUCTING A UNIQUE VOICE
PART EIGHT: RELIGION AND SEXUALITY
EIGHTEEN: WHEN YOU DIVIDE BODY AND SOUL, PROBLEMS MULTIPLY: THE BLACK CHURCH AND SEXUALITY
NINETEEN: HOMOTEXTUALITIES: THEBIBLE, SEXUALETHICS, AND THE THEOLOGY OF HOMOEROTICISM
PART NINE: BIOCRITICISM AND BLACK ICONS
TWENTY: X MARKS THE PLOTS: A CRITICAL READING OF MALCOLM’S READERS
HERO WORSHIP AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF A BLACK REVOLUTIONARY
THE VOCATION OF A PUBLIC MORALIST
PSYCHOBIOGRAPHY AND THE FORCES OF HISTORY
VOICES IN THE WILDERNESS: REVOLUTIONARY SPARKS AND MALCOLM’ S LAST YEAR
IN THE PRISON OF PRISMS: THE FUTURE OF MALCOLM’ S PAST
TWENTY-ONE: MIXED BLESSINGS: MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., AND THE LESSONS OF AN AMBIGUOUS HEROISM
TWENTY-TWO: “ GIVE ME A PAPER AND PEN”: TUPAC’S PLACE IN HIP-HOP
PART TEN: CINEMA NOIR
TWENTY-THREE: SPIKE LEE’S NEONATIONALIST VISION
TWENTY-FOUR: BETWEEN APOCALYPSE AND REDEMPTION: JOHN SINGLETON’S BOYZ N THE HOOD
TWENTY-FIVE: GHETTOCENTRICITY AND THE NEW BLACK CINEMA
PART ELEVEN: THE SOUL MUSICS OF BLACK FOLK
TWENTY-SIX: THE PROMISE AND PERILS OF CONTEMPORARY GOSPEL MUSI
TWENTY-SEVEN: MARIAH CAREY AND “AUTHENTIC” BLACK MUSIC
TWENTY-EIGHT: ARETHA FRANKLIN, VANESSA BELL ARMSTRONG, AND ME
TWENTY-NINE: THE GREAT NEXT: JAZZ ORIGINS AND THE ANATOMY OF IMPROVISATION
PART TWELVE: HIP - HOP CULTURE
THIRTY: THE CULTURE OF HIP-HOP
THIRTY-ONE: GANGSTA RAP AND AMERICAN CULTURE
THIRTY-TWO: WE NEVER WERE WHAT WE USED TO BE: BLACK YOUTH, POP CULTURE, AND THE POLITICS OF NOSTALGIA
PART THIRTEEN: THE PREDICAMENT OF POST MODERNITY
THIRTY-THREE: MICHAEL JACKSON’S POSTMODERN SPIRITUALITY
THIRTY-FOUR: BE LIKE MIKE? MICHAEL JORDAN AND THE PEDAGOGY OF DESIRE
THIRTY-FIVE: IS POSTMODERNISM JUST MODERNISM IN DRAG ?
PART FOURTEEN: CODA: THE LIFE OF THE MIND
THIRTY-SIX: IT ’S NOT WHAT YOU KNOW, IT’S HOW YOU SHOW IT: BLACK PUBLIC INTELLECTUALS
NOTES
CHAPTER 4. THE LIBERAL THEORY OF RACE
CHAPTER 8. LEONARD JEFFRIES AND THE STRUGGLE FOR THE BLACK MIND
CHAPTER 10. THE LABOR OF WHITENESS, THE WHITENESS OF LABOR, AND THE PERILS OF WHITEWISHING
CHAPTER 12. THE PLIGHT OF BLACK MEN
CHAPTER 15. “ GOD ALMIGHTY HAS SPOKEN FROM WASHINGTON, D.C.”: AMERICAN SOCIETY AND CHRISTIAN FAITH
CHAPTER 17. “SOMEWHERE I READ OF THE FREEDOM OF SPEECH”: CONSTRUCTING A UNIQUE VOICE
CHAPTER 20. X MARKS THE PLOTS: A CRITICAL READING OF MALCOLM’S READERS
CHAPTER 21 . MIXED BLESSINGS: MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., AND THE LESSONS OF ANAMBIGUOUS H E R O IS M
CHAPTER 22. “ GIVE ME A PAPER AND PEN ”: TUPAC’S PLACE IN HIP - HOP
CHAPTER 24. BETWEEN APOCALYPSE AND REDEMPTION: JOHN SINGLETON’S BOYZ N THE HOOD
CHAPTER 33 . MICHAEL JACKSON’S POSTMODERN SPIRITUALITY
CHAPTER 34 . BE LIKE MIKE? MICHAEL JORDAN AND THE PEDAGOGY OF DESIRE
CREDITS
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