The devil & Dave Chappelle & other essays / William Jelani Cobb.

"There are no simple answers, only oversimplified ones. But the cure to all social ills lies in uncovering the truth. In this timely, wide-ranging collection of essays, William Jelani Cobb uses cinema, music, literature, politics, and pop culture to reveal some discomforting realities. "On the Strol...

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Main Author: Cobb, Jelani
Language:English
Published: New York : Thunder's Mouth Press, [2007], ©2007.
Subjects:
African Americans > Social conditions > 1975-
African Americans > Race identity.
African Americans > Intellectual life.
United States > Social conditions > 1980-2020.
United States > Race relations.
American essays > African American authors.
Genre:
American essays
Physical Description:xii, 319 pages ; 21 cm
Variant Title:
Devil and Dave Chappelle and other essays.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Troubling Waters
  • Nation-Time: Cotton Comes to Washington
  • 41 Shots
  • White Negro Please: Eminem's Race Blues
  • The World Is Yours
  • The Hoodrat Theory
  • The Quagmire Blues
  • The Cosby Show
  • Fear Factor
  • Terror in Black and White
  • Six in One Hand
  • On the Stroll: Pimping Three 6 Mafia
  • Out of Time (Brian Barber's Idlewild)
  • The Trouble with Harry
  • Pimp-Slapping Oprah (Or We Still Wear the Mask)
  • The Hater's Ball
  • What Happens in Rio
  • First Person
  • My Daughter, Once Removed
  • Seeing Double
  • Two-fifth & Hollis
  • The More Things Change
  • Black-Owned
  • Kindred's Soul: Words with Octavia Butler
  • Lifecycle of a Butterfly
  • The Killing Fields: Notorious B.I.G.
  • Ore: Requiem for a Neighborhood Badass
  • The Last Race Man
  • Blood at the Root
  • Rev. Al's Big Score
  • King, for a Day
  • Beautiful Struggle: An Interview with Talib Kweli
  • The Stamp of Disapproval
  • What Black People Should Know By Now
  • The Road Ahead of Barack Obama
  • The Tragedy of Colin Powell
  • Malcolm: The Unknown
  • The Genius of Harold Cruse, 1916-2005
  • The Truth about Rosa Parks
  • Seeing Coretta
  • Auburn Avenue Blues
  • Hanging Curve: Barry Bonds as Tragic Hero
  • The Good Example
  • The Devil and Dave Chappelle
  • Past Imperfect
  • The Millionth March
  • Willie Lynch Is Dead (1712?-2003)
  • The Case of the Disappearing Negro
  • The House Negro Blues
  • Ghosts of Tuskegee
  • OutKasts and Indians
  • Brown v. Blacks
  • The Other L-Word
  • The 41st Acre
  • The Good Ol' Days of Slavery
  • Slavery.edu
  • Forgetting Where We Came From.