Originally published: New York : Pantheon Books, 1995. Includes index.
Contents:
Blues to be constitutional -- Blues-collar clarity -- Do the Afrocentric hustle -- Who are we? Where did we come from? Where are we going? -- The B & J blues -- Unity '94 blues, part I -- Unity '94 blues, part II -- Black power redux blues -- Wee wee wee blues -- Dumb bell blues -- Another long drink of the blues: the race card in the Simpson case -- How long? So long -- The measure of the Oklahoma kid -- Barbarous on either side: the New York blues of Mr. Sammler's planet -- An introduction to Gerald Early -- Beyond American tribalism -- How did they lift my loot? Barbara Probst Solomon's transcendent detective story -- An introduction to Martha Bayles -- Blues for Jackie -- Martin's tempo -- Beale Street redux: tom cat blues & passing for white blues -- Bigger Jim's Duke -- On the corner: the sellout of Miles Davis -- Dizzy Gillespie -- True blue rebels -- In this house, on this morning -- Toward a cinematic language of democracy -- Menace II society -- Harlem on our minds -- Eggplant blues: the miscegenated cinema of Quentin Tarantino -- Melting down the iron suits of history.
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