Sex and Negrocity

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction: Lust, of All Things (Black) 1
4. 1. The Black Male Show
5. Amiri Baraka 9
6. Wayne Shorter 16
7. Jimi Hendrix 24
8. John Coltrane 41
9. Gone Fishing 44
10. The Black Artists’ Group 50
11. Butch Morris 55
12. Charles Edward Anderson Berry and the History of Our Future 57
13. Lonnie Holley 68
14. Marion Brown (1931–2010) and Djinji Brown 71
15. Dark Angels of Dust 73
16. Bill T. Jones 78
17. Gary Simmons 81
18. The Persistence of Vision 83
19. Ice Cube 91
20. Wynton Marsalis 102
21. Thornton Dial 110
22. Kehinde Wiley 124
23. Rammellzee 127
24. Richard Pryor 136
25. Richard Pryor 146
26. Gil Scott-Heron 149
27. The Man in Our Mirror 152
28. Miles Davis 158
29. 2. She Laughing Mean and Impressive Too
30. Born to Dyke 167
31. Joni Mitchell 175
32. Azealia Banks 177
33. Sade 180
34. All the Things You Could Be by Now If James Brown Was a Feminist 186
35. Itabari Njeri 193
36. Kara Walker 196
37. Women at the Edge of Space, Time, and Art 202
38. Ellen Gallagher 208
39. To Bid a Poet Black and Abstract 210
40. “ The Gikuyu Mythos versus the Cullud Grrrl from Outta Space” 213
41. Come Join the Hieroglyphic Zombie Parade 219
42. Björk’s Second Act 223
43. Thelma Golden 228
44. 3. Hello Darknuss My Old Meme
45. Top Ten Reasons Why So Few Black Women Were Down to Occupy Wall Street Plus Four More 235
46. What Is Hip-Hop? 239
47. Intelligence Data 242
48. Hip-Hop Turns Thirty 246
49. Love and Crunk 252
50. White Freedom 254
51. Wu-Dunit 256
52. Unlocking the Truth vs. John Cage 260
53. 4. Screenings
54. Spike Lee’s Bamboozled 265
55. It’s a Mack Thing 270
56. Sex and Negrocity 272
57. Lincoln in Whiteface 275
58. The Black Power Mixtape 278
59. 5. Race, Sex, Politricks, and Belles Lettres
60. Clarence Major 285
61. The Atlantic Sound 288
62. Apocalypse Now 290
63. Blood and Bridges 292
64. Nigger-’ Tude 296
65. Triple Threat 299
66. Bottom Feeders 306
67. Scaling the Heights 307
68. Fear of a Mongrel Planet 310
69. Adventures in the Skin Trade 313
70. Generations Hexed 315
71. Going Underground 317
72. Judgment Day 320
73. Black Modernity and Laughter, or How It Came to Be That N*g*as Got Jokes 322
74. Kalahari Hopscotch, or Notes toward a Twenty-Volume Afrocentric Futurist Manifesto 330
75. Sources 343
76. Index 347