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Airing dirty laundry
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A collection of essays in which Reed confirms his status as an "Establishment" agitator, an undying advocate of multiculturalism, and a supportive and nurturing presence in a variety of artistic en...
A collection of essays in which Reed confirms his status as an "Establishment" agitator, an undying advocate of multiculturalism, and a supportive and nurturing presence in a variety of artistic endeavors from writing to rap.
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- Creator
- Ishmael Reed
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Paperback edition
- Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, 1994
- ©1993
- Physical Details
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- xxv, 287 pages ; 21 cm
- ISBNs
- 0201408325, 9780201408324
- OCLC
- ocm32217790
- "With a new preface"--Cover.
- Includes index.
- Part 1: Airing dirty laundry -- Is there a Black-Jewish feud? -- Beyond Los Angeles -- Clarence Thomas lynched again -- Gays and feminists play with racist fire -- Rodney King and I -- Mike Tyson and the white hope cult -- Drug 'experts' don't live with gunfire -- An outsider in Koreatown -- Part 2: Profiles/reviews -- Elaine Brown, activist -- Eldridge Cleaver, writer -- Gwendolyn Brooks, poet -- Paul Robeson, actor -- Bill Gunn, director -- Frederick Douglass, politician -- Ambrose Bierce, writer -- Reginald Lewis, businessman -- Langston Hughes, writer -- John Edgar Wideman, writer -- Zora Neal Hurston, writer -- Chester Himes, writer -- Jess Mowry, writer -- Reginald Martin, Toni Cade Bambara, writers -- Miraculous fiction, writers -- The fourth Ali, boxer -- Part 3: Odds & ends -- Money can't buy you love -- Reading, writing, and racism -- The be-bop revival -- Savages and liberators -- Silencing the hordes -- Ms. Gore's crusade -- To be an American is to be fair -- Black Irishman -- American poetry: Is there a center? -- Distant cousins