"An eye-opening look at race, politics, literature, and music"--Cover, "Foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr."--Cover, and "A Fireside book"--Page 4 of cover
Contents:
Foreword / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- Knee Deep in Blood Ulmer -- Hardcore of Darkness: Bad Brains -- Cecil Taylor's Monster Movie -- The Atomic Dog: George Clinton interview by Greg Tate and Bob Wisdom -- Beyond the Zone of the Zero Funkativity -- Baby Miles and Baby Wayne: Wynton Marsalis -- Stagolee Versus the Proper Negro: The Treacherous Three -- Cross Over -- Prince, Wynton Marsalis, and Eddie Murphy -- Are You Ready for Juju?: King Sunny Abe -- The Electric Miles -- Silence, Exile, and Cunning: Miles Davis in Memoria -- Call Me Abraxas: Santana -- Beat the Message Too: Ram-El-Zed v. K-Rob -- I'm White!: What's Wrong with Michael Jackson -- The GOP Throws a Mamma-Jammy: Black Stars Bowl Over Bush at Blues Summit -- Clitoral Madness: A R Kane -- 'Taint Nobody's Business: Adeva -- Change of the Century: Ornette Coleman -- Invisible Man Overboard: Marc Anthony Thompson -- Homeys on the Range: Public Enemy -- The Devil Made 'Em Do It: Public Enemy -- Diary of a Bug -- Posses in Effect: Ice-T -- Yabba Dabba Doo-Wop: De La Soul -- Yo! Hermeneutics!: Henry Louis Gates, Houston Baker, and David Toop -- Ghetto in the Sky: Samuel Delany's Black Whole -- Growing Up in Public: Amiri Baraka Changes His Mind -- Guerrilla Scholar on the Loose: Robert Farris Thompson Gets Down -- Harlem When It Sizzled -- Cult-Nats Meet Freaky-Deke -- Signs and Cymbals: Nathaniel Mackey's Postmod Pop -- You Look Fabulist: Steve Erickson's Wild Kingdom -- White Magic: Don DeLillo's Intelligence Networks -- Dread or Alive: William Gibson -- Nobody Loves a Genius Child: Jean Michel Basquiat, Flyboy in the Buttermilk -- Fear of a Mutt Palette: Art and Ancestry in the Colored Museum -- Cinematic Sisterhood -- Leadership Follies -- New York 8 +, Feds 0 -- Now We Come by Thousands -- Love and the Enemy