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The artificial white man : essays on authenticity
Another dance of the bull through the china shop of cliches,The Artificial White Manproves the correctness of Tom Wolfe's observation that Stanley Crouch is \"the jazz virtuoso of the American essay.\" This time out, Crouch focuses his attention on issues surrounding the often misdirected American hunger for \"authenticity.\" Though the essays range in topic from segregation in contemporary fiction to the racial politics of filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, they are informed by a singular concern: our increasing difficulty in discerning the real from the counterfeit, the posture from the pose, in contemporary life.Crouch moves across literature, music, sports, film, race, sex, class, and religion with insights withering in one instance, celebratory and challenging in another. Long known as an independent thinker, Crouch takes further intellectual chances in this collection challenging us to live up to the potential of our social contract and our democratic arts. Pointed and provocative,The Artificial White Manis as witty and eye-opening as cultural criticism gets.
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Planning Grant Award - Searching for Exciting States: Curricular Reform in Chemistry at MSU
Planning grant made under the first round of the Systemic Changes in the Undergraduate Chemistry Curriculum Program.
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Love in Vain
Robert Johnson was undoubtedly the most outstanding of the Mississippi Delta blues musicians and also one of the first inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but his short life remains steeped in mystery and wrapped in some of the most enduring legends of modern music.Love in Vainis Alan Greenberg's remarkable, highly acclaimed, and genre-defying screenplay and is widely considered to be one of the foremost books on Robert Johnson's life and legacy and an extraordinary exercise in American mythmaking. Newly revised and complete with extensive historical notes on Johnson's life and the culture of the Mississippi Delta and blues music during the 1930s,Love in Vainis at once a classic of music writing and a screenplay whose reputation lies firmly in the realm of great American literature.
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INTRODUCTION TO THE FIRST EDITION
I FIND IT FITTING that the first book written about Mississippi’s Delta blues legend Robert Johnson is grounded as much in myth, legend, and tall tale as in research. The work’s obvious inclination toward the fantastic and the cultural metaphors of superstition separates it from those largely fictional film biographies that are pushed forward as factual; it also proposes that we can learn as much from good mythology as from fine documentation—if the mythology carries or transmits how a world may havefeltto those participants, onlookers, and descendants swept up in the lore of time and impatient with
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Being a Dummy Makes One a Real Person: The Braining Down of the Education of African Americans
Suggests that acting white and ignorant is the silent killer of educational aspirations for urban blacks, comparing current public figures that appear ridiculous and ignorant (gangster rappers) to Stepin Fetchit of the 1950s. Nineteenth-century blacks never elevated ignorance or vulgarity as aspects of liberation. It is important to determine how to portray the work of intellectuals as exciting. (SM)
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The Afrocentric Hustle
Argues that, as a movement, Afrocentrism is a clever but essentially simple-minded hustle that, in its desire to have the power to define, often justifies low-quality scholarship. Its central failure is the failure to recognize what African Americans have done to realize the truest meanings of democratic possibility. (SLD)
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Barbarous on Either Side: The New York Blues of Mr. Sammler's Planet
The very conception of Mr. Sammler is expressive of Saul Bellow's gift for bringing together the intellect, the passion, the spirit, and the flesh. A critique of the novel is offered.
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