The all-American skin game, or, The decoy of race /

"In this brilliantly acerbic collection of essays--a New York Times Notable Book in 1995--Stanley Crouch confirms that he is one of the most eloquent and unpredictable commentators on race and culture in American society--something already known to anyone who's seen him on 60 Minutes or re...

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Autor principal: Crouch, Stanley
Formato: Libro
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Vintage Books, 1997, c1995.
Edición:1st Vintage Books ed.
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300 |a xvii, 267 p. ;  |c 21 cm. 
500 |a Editado originalmente: New York : Pantheon Books, 1995. 
500 |a Incluye índice. 
505 0 |a Introduction: Blues to you, Part II -- Part I. From here to the horizon: how it goes: Blues to be constitutional -- Blues-collar clarity -- Do the Afrocentric hustle -- Who are we? Where did we come from? Where are we going? -- The B & J blues -- Unity '94 blues, part I -- Unity '94 blues, part II -- Black power redux blues -- Wee wee wee blues -- Dumb bell blues -- Another long drink of the blues: the race card in the Simpson case -- Part II. For Ralphus: How long? So long -- The measure of the Oklahoma kid -- Barbarous on either side: the New York blues of Mr. Sammler's planet -- An introduction to Gerald Early -- Beyond American tribalism -- How did they lift my loot? Barbara Probst Solomon's transcendent detective story -- An introduction to Martha Bayles -- Blues for Jackie -- Part III. The mighty sound and swine and transcendence: Martin's tempo -- Beale Street redux: tom cat blues & passing for white blues -- Bigger Jim's Duke -- On the corner: the sellout of Miles Davis -- Dizzy Gillespie -- True blue rebels -- In this house, on this morning -- Part IV. Off the wall: movies: Toward a cinematic language of democracy -- Menace II society -- Harlem on our minds -- Eggplant blues: the miscegenated cinema of Quentin Tarantino -- Part V. Diminuendo and crescendo : out-chorus on a long, long line: Melting down the iron suits of history. 
520 |a "In this brilliantly acerbic collection of essays--a New York Times Notable Book in 1995--Stanley Crouch confirms that he is one of the most eloquent and unpredictable commentators on race and culture in American society--something already known to anyone who's seen him on 60 Minutes or read his columns in The Village Voice and The New Republic." --Descripción del editor. 
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651 0 |a United States  |x Politics and government  |y 1993-2001. 
651 7 |a Estados Unidos  |x Relaciones raciales.  |2 UDESA 
651 7 |a Estados Unidos  |x Política y gobierno  |y 1989-1993.  |2 UDESA 
651 7 |a Estados Unidos  |x Política y gobierno  |y 1993-2001.  |2 UDESA 
650 0 |a African Americans. 
650 7 |a Afroestadounidenses.  |2 UDESA