Yo' Mama's Disfunktional! Fighting the Culture Wars in Urban America

Name: Yo' Mama's Disfunktional! Fighting the Culture Wars in Urban America
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ISBN: 9780807009413

ISBN-10: 0807009415

ISBN-13: 9780807009413

Edition: 1998

Authors: Robin D. G. Kelley

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"It is not too much or too early to call Robin D. G. Kelley a leading black historian of the age. But it may not be enough." -Paul Buhle, Monthly Review In this vibrant, thought-provoking book, Kelley, "the preeminent historian of black popular culture writing today" (Cornel West) shows how the multicolored urban working class is the solution to the ills of American cities. He undermines widespread misunderstandings of black culture and shows how they have contributed to the failure of social policy to save our cities. "A salvo in response to the latest conservative efforts to mine the familiar battery of statistics in search of proof that African-Americans belong at the bottom of…

Book details

List price: $21.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication date: 9/17/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 244
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Introduction



Looking for the "Real" Nigga: Social Scientists Construct the Ghetto



Looking to get Paid: How Some Black Youth Put Culture to Work



Looking Backward: The Limits of Self-Help Ideology



Looking Extremely Backward: Why the Enlightenment Will Only Lead Us into the Dark



Looking Forward: How the New Working Class Can Transform Urban America


Epilogue: Looking B(l)ackward: 2097-1997


Notes


Props, Respect, and Love


Index