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  15. “God Almighty Has Spoken from Washington, D.C.”: American Society and Christian Faith. From Reflecting Black: African-American Cultural Criticism (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1993), pp. 286–319. Originally published in DePaul Law Review, Vol. 42, No. 1, Fall 1992, pp. 129–159.

  16. Gardner Taylor: The Poet Laureate of the American Pulpit. From Between God and Gangsta Rap: Bearing Witness to Black Culture (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996), pp. 40–55. Originally published in The Christian Century, Vol. 112, No. 1, January 4–11, 1995, pp. 12–16.

  17. “Somewhere I Read of the Freedom of Speech”: Constructing a Unique Voice. From I May Not Get There With You: The True Martin Luther King, Jr. (New York: Free Press, 2000), pp. 137–154.

  18. When You Divide Body and Soul, Problems Multiply: The Black Church and Sexuality. From Race Rules: Navigating the Color Line (Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1996), pp. 77–108.

  19. Homotextualities. From Open Mike: Reflections on Philosophy, Race, Sex, Culture and Religion (New York: BasicCivitas, 2003), pp. 360–384.

  20. X Marks the Plots: A Critical Reading of Malcolm’s Readers. From Making Malcolm: The Myth and Meaning of Malcolm X (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995), pp. 21–76. Originally published in Social Text 35, Spring 1993, pp. 25–55.

  21. Mixed Blessings: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Lessons of an Ambiguous Heroism. From Reflecting Black: African-American Cultural Criticism (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press), pp. 221–246. Originally published in earlier form in Union Seminary Quarterly Review, Vol. 44, Nos. 1–2, 1990, pp. 85–99.

  22. “Give Me a Paper and Pen”: Tupac’s Place in Hip-Hop. From Holler If You Hear Me: Searching for Tupac Shakur (New York: BasicCivitas, 2001), pp. 105–139.

  23. Spike Lee’s Neonationalist Vision. From Reflecting Black: African-American Cultural Criticism (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press), pp. 23–31. Originally published in Tikkun, Vol. 4, No. 5, September/October 1989, pp. 75–78.

  24. Between Apocalypse and Redemption: John Singleton’s Boyz N the Hood. From Reflecting Black: African-American Cultural Criticism (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press), pp. 90–110. Originally published in Film Theory Goes To The Movies. Ed. Jim Collins et al (New York: Routledge, 1993), pp. 209–226.

  25. Ghettocentricity and the New Black Cinema. From The Subversive Imagination: Artists, Society and Social Responsibility. Ed. Carol Becker (New York: Routledge, 1994), pp. 154–167.

  26. The Promise and Perils of Contemporary Gospel Music. From Reflecting Black: African-American Cultural Criticism (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press), pp. 322–327. Originally published in The New York Times, December 22, 1991, pp. 30–31.

  27. Mariah Carey and “Authentic” Black Music. From Between God and Gangsta Rap: Bearing Witness to Black Culture (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996), pp. 143–146. Originally published in The New York Times, February 13, 1994, Section 2 (Arts & Leisure), p. 30.

  28. Aretha Franklin, Vanessa Bell Armstrong, and Me. From Why I Love Black Women (New York: BasicCivitas, 2003), pp. 46–56.

  29. The Great Next: Jazz Origins and the Anatomy of Improvisation. From Open Mike: Reflections on Philosophy, Race, Sex, Culture and Religion (New York: BasicCivitas, 2003), pp. 179–206.

  30. The Culture of Hip-Hop. From Reflecting Black: African-American Cultural Criticism (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press), pp. 3–15. Originally published in Z Magazine, June 1989.

  31. Gangsta Rap and American Culture. From Between God and Gangsta Rap: Bearing Witness to Black Culture (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996), pp. 176–186.

  32. We Never Were What We Used to Be: Black Youth, Pop Culture, and the Politics of Nostalgia. From Race Rules: Navigating the Color Line (Reading, MA: AddisonWesley, 1996), pp. 109–149.

  33. Michael Jackson’s Postmodern Spirituality. From Reflecting Black: African-American Cultural Criticism (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press), pp. 35–60. Originally published in Black Sacred Music: A Journal of Theomusicology, Vol. 3, No. 2, Fall 1989, pp. 98–124.

  34. Be Like Mike? Michael Jordan and the Pedagogy of Desire. From Reflecting Black: African-American Cultural Criticism (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press), pp. 64–75. Originally published in Cultural Studies, Vol. 7, No. 1, January 1993, pp. 64–72.

  35. Is Postmodernism Just Modernism in Drag? From Open Mike: Reflections on Philosophy, Race, Sex, Culture and Religion (New York: BasicCivitas, 2003), pp. 151–178.

  36. It’s Not What You Know, It’s How You Show It: Black Public Intellectuals. From Race Rules: Navigating the Color Line (Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1996), pp. 47–76.

  INDEX

  Aaron, Hank

  Abdul, Paula

  Abuse, physical

  allegation of King’s

  child abuse

  Kobe Bryant’s alleged sexual abuse

  Academic life

  Addiction to tabloids, author’s

  Adler, Margot

  Adolescence. See Childhood and adolescence

  Adultery

  Advertising industry

  marketing Michael Jordan

  sports figures

  use of Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Aeolian Hall concert

  Aesthetic alienation of hip-hop culture

  Affirmative action

  as reverse racism

  college admissions policy

  neoconservative black stance on

  Aframnesia

  African culture: origins of jazz

  African Origin of Biological Psychiatry (King)

  Afrocentricity (Asante)

  Aging

  Air Jordan

  Alexander, Margaret Walker

  Ali, Muhammad

  Ali, Shahrazad

  Allen, Theodore

  American Civil War

  American Revolution

  Anger

  at humiliating behavior of whites

  white male anger

  Anson, Robert Sam

  Antimiscegenation laws

  Arendt, Hannah

  Armstrong, Louis

  Armstrong, Vanessa Bell

  Art, See also Music

  Asante, Molefi Kete

  ASCAP

  Asian Americans

  Assassination

  Malcolm X

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Assimilation theory

  Athletes

  Kobe Bryant

  Michael Jordan

  O.J. Simpson

  virtue transcending sports

  See also Sports

  Atwater, Lee

  Autobiography of Malcolm X

  Awards

  Bacharach, Burt

  Bad (video)

  Bailey, Harold

  Baker, Anita

  Bakke case

  Baldwin, James

  Bambaataa, Afrika

  Baraka, Amiri

  Baseball

  Basketball

  Bassett, Angela

  Baxter, Michael

  Bebop

  Behar, Joy

  Beiderbecke, Bix

  The Bell Curve (Herrnstein and Murray)

  Benjamin, Playthell

  Bennett, Lerone

  Bennett, William

  Bernal, Martin

  Berry, Halle

  Best Intentions (Anson)

  Betweener generation

  Bing, Leon

  Biological determinism

  Biracialism

  Black, Cordell

  Black art controversy

  Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization (Bernal)

  Black Entertainment Television (BET)

  Black History Month

  The Blackman s Guide to Understanding the Blackwoman (Ali)

  Black Reconstruction (Du Bois)

  Blige, Mary J.

  Bloom, Harold

  Blues music

  Body, human
/>   black masculinity

  body-centered culture

  commodification of Michael Jordan

  fashionable nature of blacks

  Boggs, James

  Bok, Derek

  Boozer, Jack

  Bourgie blacks

  Boxing

  Boyz N the Hood (1991)

  Bradley, Michael

  Bray, Rosemary

  Breitman, George

  Bricolage

  Brightman, Edgar

  Brokaw, Tom

  Brotherhood

  Brown, James

  Brown, Jamie

  Brown, Jim

  Brown, Robert McAfee

  Brown University

  Bruce, Tammy

  Bryant, Kobe

  Burdette, Otis

  Burns, Khephra

  Bush, George W.

  Buttrick, George

  By Any Means Necessary (Malcolm X)

  Caesar, Shirley

  Calloway, Vanessa Bell

  Capitalism

  Carey, Mariah

  Caribbean music

  Carnival

  Carson, Clayborne

  Carson-Newman College

  Carter, Jimmy

  Carter, Maria Agui

  Casanova complex

  Catholic Church scandal

  Censorship of gangsta rap

  Character, evolution of

  Charles, Ray

  Chennault, Ronald E.

  Chicago, Illinois

  Childhood and adolescence

  author’s upbringing

  discipline versus abuse

  of Malcolm X

  Christianity. See Religion

  Church-state relations

  Civilization or Barbarism: An Authentic Anthropology (Diop)

  Civil religion

  Civil Rights Act (1964)

  Civil rights movement

  Clarke, John Henrik

  Class. See Socioeconomic status

  Cleage, Albert

  Clinton, Bill

  Clinton, George

  Cochran, Johnnie

  Cockrel, Kenneth

  Cohen, Carl

  Cohen, William

  College admissions

  Collier, James Lincoln

  Collins, Lisa

  Colonialism

  Colors (1988)

  Coltrane, John

  Coming of age. See Childhood and adolescence

  Common

  Community: Boyz N the Hood

  Cone, James

  Congo Square, New Orleans

  Congreve, William

  Constitution, U.S.

  Consumerism: consumption of Michael Jordan

  Cooke, Sam

  Cooley High (Schultz)

  Cowlings, A.C.

  Cox, Oliver

  Crack cocaine

  Cranbrook School

  Cray, Robert

  Creole people

  Cress-Welsing, Frances

  Crime

  evolution of drug and gang culture in the ghetto

  portrayed in film

  See also Homicide; Violence

  Cross, Ted

  Crouch, Andrae

  Crouch, Stanley

  Cuba

  Cultural adaptation

  Cultural icon, MichaelJordan as

  Cultural pluralism

  Cultural Studies journal

  Culture, black

  convergence of rhetorical universes

  film criticism

  Tupac Shakur as symbol of

  white musicians’ appropriation of

  See also Film; Hip-hop

  Curry, George

  D’Angelo

  Daniels, David

  Darden, Christopher

  Dash, Julie

  David, Hal

  Davis, Angela

  Davis, Mike

  Davis, Miles

  Death

  depressingly large numbers of black men

  firearms’ contribution to

  transcending

  See also Homicide

  The Death and Life of Malcolm X (Goldman)

  Declaration of Independence

  Dee, Big Tray

  Deification of Accidence

  Demme, Jonathan

  Detroit, Michigan

  symbols of home

  women vocalists

  Dialectical Society

  Dickerson, Ernest

  Dill, Augustus

  DiMaggio, Joe

  Dinkins, David

  Diop, Cheikh Anta

  Disco culture

  Dissent magazine

  The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society (Schlesinger)

  Divorce: grim statistics for black women

  Dixieland music

  DJ Jazzy Jeff

  DJ Kool Herc

  Dogg, Snoop Doggy

  Dole, Bob

  Domestic violence

  Domination

  many faces of white domination

  white-black domination

  whiteness as

  Dorsey, Thomas A.

  Do the Right Thing (1989)

  Douglas, Ann

  Douglass, Frederick

  Douglass, Mary

  Dr. Dre

  Drug trafficking

  Drumming

  Du Bois, W.E.B.

  as face of American identity

  criticism of

  grim prophecy of

  politics of nostalgia

  psychic wages of whiteness

  racial discourse

  racism in academia

  schism with Washington

  spurning jazz

  Duke, George

  Dunbar, Paul Laurence

  Dyson, Brenda

  Dyson, Mike

  Dyson, Terrie

  Dyson-Bey, Everett

  Earning gap

  Easy Rider (1969)

  Ebert, Roger

  Ebony magazine

  Economies of whiteness

  Ecstasy, religious

  Edifying deception

  Education

  affirmative action and university admissions

  as criterion for black women choosing black men

  author’s education and intellectual development

  author’s high standards in literature and thinking

  low levels of achievement of black men

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  racism on college campuses

  the power of knowledge

  versus prison for black men

  Egyptian culture

  Einstein, Albert

  “Elegy” (Gray

  Eliot, T.S.

  Ellington, Duke

  Ellis, Aunjanue

  Ellison, Ralph

  black masculinity

  modernism and

  multicultural applicability of his work

  on OJ. Simpson

  on whiteness

  Emancipation through music

  Emerge magazine

  Emerging culture theory

  The End of White World Supremacy: Four Speeches by Malcolm X (Karim, ed.)

  Erudition

  Eventful versus event-making persons

  Family

  Boyz N the Hood

  cultural adaptation during urban migration

  dependence on man’s fate

  Everett Dyson-Bey’s imprisonment

  Moynihan’s study

  Family values

  Fantasy, sexual

  Farley, Jonathan

  Farrakhan, Louis

  Fascism

  Fatherhood: Boyz Nthe Hood

  Feminism

  Film and film criticism

  Boyz N the Hood

  gangster films

  hip-hop culture

  Malcolm X

  O.J. Simpson’s appearance in

  purpose of film criticism

  Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing

  Firearms

  First Amendment

  Fish, Stanley

 
Fitzgerald, F. Scott

  Florio-Bunten, Francine

  Foreman, George

  Foucault, Michel

  Founding Fathers

  Franklin, Aretha

  Franklin, Benjamin

  Franklin, C.L.

  Frazier, E. Franklin

  Freedom (Patterson)

  The Fresh Prince

  Fuhrman, Mark

  Funk music

  Gammage, Jonny

  Gandhi, Mohandas (Mahatma)

  Gangs

  Gangsta rap

  Gangster films

  Garrow, David

  Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.

  Gay and lesbian issues. See Homosexuality

  Gaye, Marvin

  Gender relations

  Boyz N the Hood

  Malcolm X

  sexism in blues

  sexism in rap

  See also Women

  Generation gaps

  Genovese, Eugene

  G-funk

  Ghettocentricity

  Ghetto life

  black identity and the black home

  Boyz N the Hood

  shaping the lives of black males

  Straight Out of Brooklyn

  Giddins, Gary

  Gifford, Kathie Lee

  Gilroy, Paul

  Ginsburg, Ruth Bader

  Giovanni’s Room (Baldwin)

  Giroux, Henry

  Gitlin, Todd

  Goldman, Peter

  Goodman, Benny

  Gore, Tipper

  Gospel music

  Graff, Gerald

  Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five

  Grant, Amy

  Grant, Madison

  Gravity, Jordan’s defying

  Gray, Thomas

  Gregory, Dick

  Griffith, Michael

  Grossberg, Lawrence

  The Growing Edge (Thurman)

  Gumbo ya-ya of black identity

  Gun culture, 437-438

  Hall, Arsenio

  Hall, Stuart

  Hamer, Fannie Lou

  Hanigan, James

  Harlem Renaissance

  Harris, Leslie

  The Harvard Classics

  Harvard University

  Hathaway, Donny

  Hauerwas, Stanley

  Hawkins, Edwin

  Hawkins, Tramaine

  Hawkins, Walter

  Hawkins, Yusuf

  Hazing

  Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich

  Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle

  Helms-Burton Act

  Henderson, Fletcher

  Hero celebration

  athletes

  Malcolm X

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Herrnstein, Richard

  Herskovits, Melville

  Hill, Anita

  Hill, Lauryn

  Hine, Darlene Clark

  Hip-hop

  aesthetic alienation of

  as alternative to crack culture

  as expression of black male rebellion

  as face of American identity

  as response to crisis of black masculinity

 

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