Flyboy 2: The Greg Tate Reader

Contents

• Introduction: Lust, of All Things (Black) 1
• 1. The Black Male Show
• Amiri Baraka 9
• Wayne Shorter 16
• Jimi Hendrix 24
• John Coltrane 41
• Gone Fishing: Remembering Lester Bowie 44
• The Black Artists' Group 50
• Butch Morris 55
• Charles Edward Anderson Berry and the History of Our Future 57
• Lonnie Holley 68
• Marion Brown (1931-2010) and Djinji Brown 71
• Dark Angels of Dust: David Hammons and the Art of Streetwise Trancendentalism 73
• Bill T. Jones: Combative Moves 78
• Garry Simmons: Conceptual Bomber 81
• The Persistence of Vision: Storyboard P 83
• Ice Cube 91
• Wynton Marsalis: Jazz Crusader 102
• Thonton Dail: Free, Black, and Brightening Up the Darkness of the World 110
• Kehinde Wiley 124
• Rammellzee: The Ikonoklast Samurai 127
• Richard Pryor: Pryor Lives 136
• Richard Pryor 146
• Gil Scott-Heron 149
• The Man in Our Mirror: Michael Jackson 152
• Miles Davis 158
• 2. She Laughing Mean and Impressive Too
• Born to Dyke: I Love My Sister Laughing and Then Again When She's Looking Mean, Queer, and Impressive 167
• Joni Mitchell: Black and Blond 175
• Azealia Banks 177
• Sade: Black Magic Woman 180
• All the Things You Could Be by Now If Iames Brown Was a Feminist 186
• Itabari Njeri 193
• Kara Walker 196
• Women at the Edge of Space, Time, and Art: Ruminations on Candida Romero's Little Girls 202
• Ellen Gallagher 208
• To Bid a Poet Black and Abstract 210
• "The Gikuyu Mythos versus the Cullud Grrrl from Outta Space": A Wangechi Mutu Feature 213
• Come Join the Hieroglyphic Zombie Parade: Deborah Grant 219
• Bjoerk's Second Act 223
• Thelma Golden 228
• 3. Hello Darknuss My Old Meme
• Top Ten Reasons Why So Few Black Women Were Down to Occupy Wall Street Plus Four More 235
• What Is Hip-Hop? 239
• Intelligence Data: Bob Dylan 242
• Hip-Hop Turns Thirty 246
• Love and Crunk: Outkast 252
• White Freedom: Eminem 254
• Wu-Dunit: Wu-Tang Clan 256
• Unlocking the Truth vs. John Cage 260
• 4. Screenings
• Spike Lee's Bamboozled 265
• It's A Mack Thing 270
• Sex and Negrocity: John Singleton's Baby Boy 272
• Lincoln in Whiteface: Jeffrey Wright and Don Cheadle in Susan-Lori Parks's Topdog/Underdog 275
• The Black Power Mixtape 278
• 5. Race, Sex, Politricks and Belle Lettres
• Clarence Major 285
• The Atlantic Sound: Caryl Phillips's The Atlantic Sound 288
• Acocalypse Now: Patricia Hill Collins's Black Sexual Politics; Thomas Shevory's Notorious H.I.V.; Jacob Levenson's The Secret Epidemic 290
• Blood and Bridges 292
• Nigger-'Tude 296
• Triple Threat: Jerry Gafio Watts's Amiri Baraka; Hazel Rowley's Richard Wright; David Macey's Frantz Fanon 299
• Bottom Feeders: Natsuo Kirino's Out 306
• Scaling the Heights: Maryse Conde's Windward Heights 307
• Fear of a Mongrel Planet: Zadie Smith's White Teeth 310
• Adventures in the Skin Trade: Lisa Teasley's Glow in the Dark 313
• Generous Hexed: Jeffery Renard Allen's Rails under My Back 315
• Going Underground: Gayl Jones's Mosquito 317
• Judgment Day: Toni Morrison's Love and Edward P. Jones's The Known World 320
• Black Modernity and Laughter, or How It Came to Be That N*g*as Got Jokes 322
• Kalahari Hopscotch, or Notes toward a Twenty-Volume Afrocentric Futurist Manifesto 330
• Sources 343
• Index 347