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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction to the New Edition | |
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| Introduction | |
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| A Chronicle of Post-Soul Black Culture | |
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| B-Boys | |
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| Rapping Deejays (1980) | |
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| Rappin' with Russell: Eddie Murphying the Flak-Catchers (1985) | |
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| CPT Time (1990) | |
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| Take Back the Mike (1991) | |
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| Michael Bivins: Boy to Man (1991) | |
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| Scarface (1992) | |
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| Cool vs. Chilly (1992) | |
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| The New Street Art (1981) | |
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| World Culture (1981) | |
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| Grandmaster Flash: Flash Is Bad (1987) | |
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| Rakim and Eric B.: Hyper as a Heart Attack (1987) | |
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| Nationwide: America Raps Back (1988) | |
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| Bobby Brown: Bad Boy Makes Good (1988) | |
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| Kool Moe Dee and L.L. Cool J: I Versus I (1989) | |
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| Goin' Off in Cali (1989) | |
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| Rap's 10th Birthday (1989) | |
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| Ghettocentricity (1991) | |
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| Pop Life (1990) | |
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| Media Impressions | |
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| Critical Condition (1991) | |
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| Up from Integration (1991) | |
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| Forty Acres and an Empire: Spike Lee Plants the New Motown in Brooklyn (1990) | |
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| Tracy Chapman: Today's Black Woman (1988) | |
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| The Ebony Agenda (1989) | |
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| Superfly (1990) | |
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| Beige Is Fine (1989) | |
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| Gangsta Attitude (1990) | |
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| Shady Dealin' (1990) | |
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| Boy Talk (1989) | |
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| Old Glory (1990) | |
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| Native Daughters (1989) | |
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| August (1990) | |
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| Get on Up (1991) | |
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| Sweet Funny Robin (1990) | |
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| Women of Color (1990) | |
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| Owner's Manual (1990) | |
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| Video Blaculinity (1990) | |
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| Box Office Riot (1991) | |
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| Niggas With Attitude (1992) | |
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| Soul Culture: Trad and Retro-Nuevo | |
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| Standing in the Shadows of Motown: The Unsung Session Men of Hitsville's Golden Era (1983) | |
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| Whose Time Was It? (1990) | |
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| Two Detroit Sisters (1991) | |
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| Berry's Ass (1990) | |
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| Babyface: LaFacing the Future (1989) | |
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| Lisa Stansfield: Britain in Effect (1990) | |
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| Rick James's Ghetto Life (1981) | |
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| Frankie Beverly Stays Home (1981) | |
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| Too Much Luther Vandross (1982) | |
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| Till the Day They Die (1984) | |
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| Lionel Richie: Truly Still Easy (1983) | |
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| The Best of Gil Scott-Heron (1984) | |
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| Not the Average Kind (1984) | |
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| Chocolate Chips at the Ice Capades (1984) | |
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| Marvin Gaye Obituary (1984) | |
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| Family Ties: Bobby Womack, Linda Womack, and Cecil Womack (1985) | |
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| The Time Has Come: Jimmy "Jam" Harris/Terry Lewis (1986) | |
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| Anita Baker: A Quiet Storm (1986) | |
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| Bobby "Blue" Bland: Storm Warnings (1987) | |
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| To Be a Black Man | |
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| Why Did Edmund Perry Die? (1985) | |
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| Blacklash (1991) | |
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| The Magic Touch (1991) | |
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| Semiconsciousness (1990) | |
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| Hands On (1989) | |
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| Race Loyalty (1991) | |
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| Dinkins's World, Sharpton's People (1989) | |
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| Dare to Be Black (1989) | |
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| B-Boy Boojie Backcourt Man: Mark "Action" Jackson Stirs the Knicks (1988) | |
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| To Be a Black Man (1991) | |
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| Big City of Dreams | |
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| Middle-Class Heaven (1989) | |
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| Fort to the Future (1990) | |
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| Garbage Time (1991) | |
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| Gusto (1991) | |
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| This Christmas (1991) | |
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| Dining on Dave (1991) | |
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| Mother's Day (1991) | |
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| Marilyn (1989) | |
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| Byron (1989) | |
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| New Lots Avenue (1990) | |
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| Sisters Who Sing (1991) | |
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| Last Exit from Brooklyn (1990) | |
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| Overnightmares (1990) | |
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| Afro Ed (1991) | |
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| The Brownsville Bomber (1986) | |
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| Summertime Blues (1991) | |
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| White Lines That Bind: Two Generations in the Cocaine Trade (1985) | |
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| Point Man in the Swampland: Dwayne Washington and the Death of Schoolyard Basketball (1987) | |
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| Brooklyn Bound (1990) | |
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| Masters of Their Own Fates | |
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| Menaces to Society: Brothers Grim--The Hugheses' Film is Hip Hop Dark (1993) | |
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| Black Books, Black Souls: The Literary Chitlin' Circuit from McMillan to Asante (1994) | |
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| They Stand Accused: Public Enemy (1994) | |
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| Master of His Own Fate (1996) | |
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| All Eyez on Spre (1999) | |
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| Michael Jordan: The Head and the Heart (1999) | |
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| Photo Credits | |