Everything But the Burden by Shari Lapena

Everything But the Burden by Shari Lapena

White kids from the 'burbs are throwing up gang signs. The 2001 Grammy winner for best rap artist was as white as rice. And blond-haired sorority sisters are sporting FUBU gear. What is going on in American culture that's giving our nation a racial-identity crisis?
Following the trail blazed by Norman Mailer's controversial essay The White Negro, Everything but the Burden brings together voices from music, popular culture, the literary world, and the media speaking about how from Brooklyn to the Badlands white people are co-opting black styles of music, dance, dress, and slang. In this collection, the essayists examine how whites seem to be taking on, as editor Greg Tate's mother used to tell him, everything but the burden-from fetishizing black athletes to spinning the ghetto lifestyle into a glamorous commodity. Is this a way of shaking off the fear of the unknown? A flattering indicator of appreciation? Or is it a more complicated cultural exchange? The pieces in Everything but the Burden explore the line between hero-worship and paternalism.
Among the book's twelve essays are Vernon Reid's Steely Dan Understood as the Apotheosis of 'The White Negro, ' Carl Hancock Rux's The Beats: America's First 'Wiggas, ' and Greg Tate's own introductory essay Nigs 'R Us.
Other contributors include: Hilton Als, Beth Coleman, Tony Green, Robin Kelley, Arthur Jafa, Gary Dauphin, Michaela Angela Davis, dream hampton, and Manthia diAwara.

From the Hardcover edition.

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ISBN 13	9780767914970
ISBN 10	076791497X
Titel	Everything But the Burden
Autor	Shari Lapena
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Random House USA Inc
Erscheinungsjahr	2003-09-09
Seitenanzahl	272
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.
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