Research Catalog

Title

Between God and gangsta rap : bearing witness to Black culture / Michael Eric Dyson.

Author

Dyson, Michael Eric

Publication

New York : Oxford Unviersity Press, 1996.

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Details

Description

xx, 218 p.; 22 cm.

Subject

• African Americans > Social conditions > 1975-
• African American arts
• African American men
• African Americans > Race identity
• Rap (Music) > History and criticism
• Black author

Note

• Includes index.

Contents

Obsessed with O.J. -- Gardner Taylor, the poet laureate of the American pulpit -- Crossing over Jordan -- The soul of Sam Cooke -- The lives of Black men -- Marion Barry and the politics of redemption -- Moral panic or civic virtue? -- A daughter's pain, a father's legacy -- The NAACP and Black America -- Carol Moseley-Braun and the politics of hope -- King's light, Malcolm's shadow -- Race and the myth of Black purity -- Blacks and Jews on stage -- Portrait of the Black family -- Screening the Black Panthers -- Shakespeare and Smokey Robinson : revisiting the culture wars -- Minstrelsy or ministry? -- Everyday in Sunday -- Mariah Carey and "authentic" Black music -- Old school love : Chante Moore and Tony Terry -- Crossing over without going under : Luther, Anita, and Vanessa -- A day in the life of Black culture -- Hip-hop and the bad rap : Hammer and Vanilla Ice -- Public Enemy, rap's prophets of rage -- Ice Cube, gangsta rap's visionary -- Gangsta rap and American culture -- Benediction : letter to my wife Marcia.

Call Number

Sc D 95-1569

ISBN

0195098986 (alk. paper)

LCCN

95020779

OCLC

• 32704883
• NYPG96-B235

Author

Dyson, Michael Eric.

Title

Between God and gangsta rap : bearing witness to Black culture / Michael Eric Dyson.

Imprint

New York : Oxford Unviersity Press, 1996.

Local Subject

Black author.

Research Call Number

Sc D 95-1569