The All-American Skin Game, or Decoy of Race The Long and the Short of It, 1990-1994

by CROUCH, STANLEY

• ISBN13: 9780679776604
• ISBN10: 0679776605
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-01-14
• Publisher: Vintage

Summary

In this brilliantly acerbic collection of essays--a New York Times Notable Book in 1995--Stanley Crouch confirms that he is one of the most eloquent and unpredictable commentators on race and culture in American society--something already known to anyone who's seen him on 60 Minutes or read his columns in The Village Voice and The New Republic. 288 pp. National media appearances.

Author Biography

Stanley Crouch has been a contributing editor to The New Republic, is an editorial columnist for the New York Daily News, and is a frequent panelist on television and radio talk shows. He is the author of Always in Pursuit, The All-American Skin Game (which was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award), Don't the Moon Look Handsome?, and Notes of a Hanging Judge. For years a staff writer for the Village Voice, he is artistic consultant to jazz at Lincoln Center. A recipient of a MacArthur fellowship, Crouch lives in New York City.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Blues to You, Part II	ix
Part One: From Here to the Horizon: How It Goes	3	(78)
Blues To Be Constitutional	5	(16)
Blues-Collar Clarity	21	(12)
Do the Afrocentric Hustle	33	(12)
Who Are We? Where Did We Come From? Where Are We Going?	45	(13)
The B & J Blues	58	(8)
Unity '94 Blues; Part I	66	(2)
Unity '94 Blues, Part II	68	(2)
Black Power Redux Blues	70	(3)
Wee Wee Wee Blues	73	(2)
Dumb Bell Blues	75	(2)
Another Long Drink of the Blues: The Race Card in the Simpson Case	77	(4)
Part Two: For Ralphus	81	(60)
How Long? So Long	83	(2)
The Measure of the Oklahoma Kid	85	(8)
Barbarous on Either Side: The New York Blues of Mr. Sammler's Planet	93	(16)
An Introduction to Gerald Early	109	(4)
Beyond American Tribalism	113	(6)
How Did They Lift My Loot? Barbara Probst Solomon's Transcendent Detective Story	119	(16)
An Introduction to Martha Bayles	135	(4)
Blues for Jackie	139	(2)
Part Three: The Mighty Sound and Swine and Transcendence	141	(64)
Martin's Tempo	143	(3)
Beale Street Redux: Tom Cat Blues & Passing for White Blues	146	(4)
Bigger Jim's Duke	150	(16)
On the Corner: The Sellout of Miles Davis	166	(20)
Dizzy Gillespie	186	(4)
True Blue Rebels	190	(2)
In This House, On This Morning	192	(13)
Part Four: Off the Wall: Movies	205	(32)
Toward a Cinematic Language of Democracy	207	(6)
Menace II Society	213	(8)
Harlem on Our Minds	221	(8)
Eggplant Blues: The Miscegenated Cinema of Quentin Tarantino	229	(8)
Part Five: Diminuendo and Crescendo: Out-Chorus on a Long, Long Line	237	(21)
Melting Down the Iron Suits of History	239	(19)
Index	258