Everything but the burden : what white people are taking from Black culture /

Everything but the burden : what white people are taking from Black culture / edited by Greg Tate.

In a dazzling collection of essays, editor Geg Tate takes on what his mother used to call "everything but the burden," dissecting the ways in which white culture has misappropriated much of black culture, from music to dance, fashion, sports, and more.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Tate, Greg.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Harlem Moon/Broadway Books, 2003.
Edition:First trade paperback edition.
Subjects:
African Americans > Social conditions > 1975-
African Americans > Intellectual life.
White people > United States > Attitudes.
Culture conflict > United States.
Racism > United States.
Racism.
United States > Race relations.
United States > Civilization > African American influences.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Nigs R Us, or how Blackfolk became fetish objects / Greg Tate
  • Eminem : the new white negro / Carl Hancock Rux
  • Scenes from Umkovu, a play / Eisa Davis
  • Reds, whites, and blues people / Robin D.G. Kelley
  • Pimp notes on autonomy / Beth Coleman
  • ThugGods : spiritual darkness and hip-hop / Melvin Gibbs
  • Yoked in Gowanus / Jonathan Lethem
  • New mythology began without me / Michael C. Ladd
  • Steely Dan : understood as the redemption of the white negro : a conversation between / Greg Tate, Vernon Reid
  • Pryor love : the life and times of America's comic prophet of race / Hilton Als
  • Beautiful ones / Michaela Angela Davis
  • Skinned / Cassandra Lane
  • Ali, Foreman, Mailer, and me / Tony Green
  • 1960s in Bamako : Malick Sidibé and James Brown / Manthia Diawara
  • Black Asianphile / Latasha Natasha Diggs
  • Afro-kinky human hair / Meri Nana-Ama Danquah
  • Captive herstories / Danzy Senna
  • Affection afflictions : my alien/my self or more 'reading at work' / Renée Green
  • My Black death / Arthur Jafa.

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