Flyboy 2: The Greg Tate Reader
- Author: Tate, Greg
A Rolling Stone contributor, Greg Tate's ferocious, slang-tinged salvos and deep-rooted historical analysis have inspired readers and intimidated colleagues for decades. This sequel to the 1992... — More…
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$138.75Contents
- 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