Everything but the Burden What White People Are Taking from Black Culture

Name: Everything but the Burden What White People Are Taking from Black Culture
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ISBN: 9780767914970

ISBN-10: 076791497X

ISBN-13: 9780767914970

Edition: 2003

Authors: Greg Tate

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White kids from the ’burbs are throwing up gang signs. The 2001 Grammy winner for best rap artist was as white as rice. And blond-haired sorority sisters are sporting FUBU gear. What is going on in American culture that’s giving our nation a racial-identity crisis? Following the trail blazed by Norman Mailer’s controversial essay “The White Negro,” Everything but the Burden 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. In this collection, the essayists examine how whites seem to be taking on, as editor Greg Tate’s mother used to…

Book details

List price: $19.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: The Crown Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/9/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.49" wide x 8.45" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English



Introduction: Nigs R Us, or How Blackfolk Became Fetish Objects




"Eminem: The New White Negro"




Scenes from Umkovu, a play




"Reds, Whites, and Blues People"




"Pimp Notes on Autonomy"




"ThugGods: Spiritual Darkness and Hip-Hop"




"Yoked in Gowanus"




"The New Mythology Began Without Me"




"Steely Dan: Understood as the Redemption of the White Negro": A conversation between Greg Tate and Vernon Reid



"A Pryor Love: The Life and Times of America's Comic Prophet of Race"




"The Beautiful Ones"




"Skinned"




"Ali, Foreman, Mailer, and Me"




"The 1960s in Bamako: Malick Sidibe and James Brown"




"The Black Asianphile"




"Afro-Kinky Human Hair"




"Captive Herstories"




"Affection Afflictions: My Alien/My Self or More 'Reading at Work'"




"My Black Death"



Contributors' Notes


Acknowledgments