Mixing It Up Taking On the Media Bullies and Other Reflections

by Reed, Ishmael

• ISBN13: 9781568583396
• ISBN10: 1568583397
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-07-08
• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

Summary

A new collection of essays first published in The New York Times and Playboy. Reed tackles subjects including Oakland, eugenics, and domestic violence,

Author Biography

ISHMAEL REED is author of six books of poetry, one opera libretto in verse, six plays, four books of essays and nine novels, and is the editor of numerous anthologies and magazines. His poetry collaborations with musicians have resulted in three CD collections recently reissued by Rounder Records, and the forthcoming "Conjure III" from Blue Note. He has been awarded a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship and the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Award, and has been a Pulitzer Prize nominee in poetry and a National Book Award finalist in both poetry and fiction. In 2001, he received a Chancellor's Award for Community Service from the University of California at Berkeley, where he has taught since 1969. In 2003, he received the Otto Award for Political Theater, and in 2004, he received the Robert Hirsch
Award from the Los Angeles Times.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Charles Chesnutt	p. 43
Miles Davis	p. 57
Sonny Rollins: Three Takes	p. 63
A Playwright of the Blues	p. 89
I Was a Victim of Unfair Lending Practices	p. 99
Showing White Students Some Love	p. 103
Assisted Homicide in Oakland	p. 109
Black Philanthropy: Old Money, New Money	p. 115
The Last Days of Black Harlem	p. 123
The Colored Mind Doubles: How the Media Use Blacks to Chastise Blacks	p. 129
Color-Blind Coverage?	p. 151
Imus: How Imus's Media Collaborators Almost Rescued Their Chief and How Media and Academic Blacks Fell for Imus's Talking Point That It Was All About Hip-Hop	p. 155
MJ, Kobe, and Ota Benga: Continuing the U.S. War against Black Men	p. 187
Sneddon's Victory	p. 221
Hurrah for Jeff Davis?	p. 225
Back to the '30s?	p. 239
The Patriot Act of the Eighteenth Century	p. 243
Mom's Book	p. 247
Miracle at Ein Raz	p. 253
Bubba from Another Planet	p. 277
Going Old South on Obama: Ma and Pa Clinton Flog Uppity Black Man	p. 283
List of First Publications	p. 305
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