The All-American Skin Game, or Decoy of Race

In this brilliantly acerbic collection of essays--a New York Times Notable Book in 1995--Stanley Crouch confirms that he is one of the most eloquent and unpredictable commentators on race and culture in American society--something already known to anyone who's seen him on 60 Minutes or read his columns in The Village Voice and The New Republic. 288 pp. National media appearances.

Stanley Crouch has been a contributing editor to The New Republic, is an editorial columnist for the New York Daily News, and is a frequent panelist on television and radio talk shows. He is the author of Always in Pursuit, The All-American Skin Game (which was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award), Don't the Moon Look Handsome?, and Notes of a Hanging Judge. For years a staff writer for the Village Voice, he is artistic consultant to jazz at Lincoln Center. A recipient of a MacArthur fellowship, Crouch lives in New York City.

Introduction: Blues to You, Part II

ix

Part One: From Here to the Horizon: How It Goes

3

(78)

Blues To Be Constitutional

5

(16)

Blues-Collar Clarity

21

(12)

Do the Afrocentric Hustle

33

(12)

Who Are We? Where Did We Come From? Where Are We Going?

45

(13)

The B & J Blues

58

(8)

Unity '94 Blues; Part I

66

(2)

Unity '94 Blues, Part II

68

(2)

Black Power Redux Blues

70

(3)

Wee Wee Wee Blues

73

(2)

Dumb Bell Blues

75

(2)

Another Long Drink of the Blues: The Race Card in the Simpson Case

77

(4)

Part Two: For Ralphus

81

(60)

How Long? So Long

83

(2)

The Measure of the Oklahoma Kid

85

(8)

Barbarous on Either Side: The New York Blues of Mr. Sammler's Planet

93

(16)

An Introduction to Gerald Early

109

(4)

Beyond American Tribalism

113

(6)

How Did They Lift My Loot? Barbara Probst Solomon's Transcendent Detective Story

119

(16)

An Introduction to Martha Bayles

135

(4)

Blues for Jackie

139

(2)

Part Three: The Mighty Sound and Swine and Transcendence

141

(64)

Martin's Tempo

143

(3)

Beale Street Redux: Tom Cat Blues & Passing for White Blues

146

(4)

Bigger Jim's Duke

150

(16)

On the Corner: The Sellout of Miles Davis

166

(20)

Dizzy Gillespie

186

(4)

True Blue Rebels

190

(2)

In This House, On This Morning

192

(13)

Part Four: Off the Wall: Movies

205

(32)

Toward a Cinematic Language of Democracy

207

(6)

Menace II Society

213

(8)

Harlem on Our Minds

221

(8)

Eggplant Blues: The Miscegenated Cinema of Quentin Tarantino

229

(8)

Part Five: Diminuendo and Crescendo: Out-Chorus on a Long, Long Line

237

(21)

Melting Down the Iron Suits of History

239

(19)

Index

258

What is included with this book?

The New copy of this book will include any supplemental materials advertised. Please check the title of the book to determine if it should include any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.

The Used, Rental and eBook copies of this book are not guaranteed to include any supplemental materials. Typically, only the book itself is included. This is true even if the title states it includes any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.

FREE SHIPPING

Amazon no longer offers textbook rentals. We do!

The All-American Skin Game, or Decoy of Race The Long and the Short of It, 1990-1994

Summary

Author Biography

Table of Contents

Supplemental Materials