What Black people should do now : dispatches from near the vanguard /

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Author / Creator:Wiley, Ralph
Edition:1st ed.
Imprint:New York : Ballantine Books, 1993.
Description:374 p. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1678773
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ISBN:0345380452 : $22.00 ($29.00 Can.)
Notes:A One World book"--T.p. verso.
Includes index.
Table of Contents:
  • What Black People Should Do Now: An Introduction
  • About Media. Why Black People Don't Buy Books. It's Greek to Me. Why Black People Don't Often Go to Baseball Games. How Skeeter Became the Boss. Imagination
  • About Personalities. Where Once Black People Laughed. Mister Justice Thomas. Some of My Best Friends. Strange Fruit. A Brief on the Meaning of Being: Muhammad Ali. Spike Lee & Denzel Washington & Malcolm X. How Black People Regard a Certain Movie Star. Magic
  • About Perceptions. Why Black People Sing the Blues. Why Black People Shoot the Jump Shot for Nothing. It's a Black Thing That Nobody Understands
  • About Travel. On the A-Train to Venus with Isis
  • About Life. The Death of Cool. What Black People Haven't Done Yet. Do All Black People Know Each Other? Portrait of the Politician as a Man Reborn. Identity and Purpose.