The Devil and Dave Chappelle And Other Essays

An unflinching collection of essays that takes on the subjects of Biggie Smalls, Three 6 Mafia, The King Family, and what it takes to be black at the turn of the twenty-first century.

William Jelani Cobb is an assistant professor of history at Spelman College.

Introduction	p. ix
Troubling Waters
Nation-Time: Cotton Comes to Washington	p. 3
41 Shots	p. 19
White Negro Please: Eminem's Race Blues	p. 23
The World Is Yours	p. 29
The Hoodrat Theory	p. 39
The Quagmire Blues	p. 43
The Cosby Show	p. 49
Fear Factor	p. 55
Terror in Black and White	p. 59
Six in One Hand	p. 63
On the Stroll: Pimping Three 6 Mafia	p. 67
Out of Time (Brian Barber's Idlewild)	p. 73
The Trouble with Harry	p. 79
Pimp-Slapping Oprah (Or We Still Wear the Mask)	p. 85
The Hater's Ball	p. 91
What Happens in Rio	p. 97
First Person
My Daughter, Once Removed	p. 111
Seeing Double	p. 117
Two-fifth & Hollis	p. 121
The More Things Change	p. 127
Black-Owned
Kindred's Soul: Words with Octavia Butler	p. 135
Lifecycle of a Butterfly	p. 147
The Killing Fields: Notorious B.I.G.	p. 155
Ore: Requiem for a Neighborhood Badass	p. 161
The Last Race Man	p. 169
Blood at the Root	p. 175
Rev. Al's Big Score	p. 179
King, for a Day	p. 183
Beautiful Struggle: An Interview with Talib Kweli	p. 187
The Stamp of Disapproval	p. 193
What Black People Should Know By Now	p. 199
The Road Ahead of Barack Obama	p. 203
The Tragedy of Colin Powell	p. 209
Malcolm: The Unknown	p. 215
The Genius of Harold Cruse, 1916-2005	p. 219
The Truth about Rosa Parks	p. 223
Seeing Coretta	p. 227
Auburn Avenue Blues	p. 231
Hanging Curve: Barry Bonds as Tragic Hero	p. 235
The Good Example	p. 241
The Devil and Dave Chappelle	p. 247
Past Imperfect
The Millionth March	p. 257
Willie Lynch Is Dead (1712?-2003)	p. 261
The Case of the Disappearing Negro	p. 267
The House Negro Blues	p. 273
Ghosts of Tuskegee	p. 279
OutKasts and Indians	p. 285
Brown v. Blacks	p. 291
The Other L-Word	p. 297
The 41st Acre	p. 303
The Good Ol' Days of Slavery	p. 307
Slavery.edu	p. 311
Forgetting Where We Came From	p. 315
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