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Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers

Author : Tom Wolfe
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2010-04-01
ISBN 10 : 9781429961189
Pages : 160 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (429 users)

Download Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers PDF Full or another Format written by Tom Wolfe and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers is classic Tom Wolfe, a funny, irreverent, and "delicious" (The Wall Street Journal) dissection of class and status by the master of New Journalism The phrase 'radical chic' was coined by Tom Wolfe in 1970 when Leonard Bernstein gave a party for the Black Panthers at his duplex apartment on Park Avenue. That incongruous scene is re-created here in high fidelity as is another meeting ground between militant minorities and the liberal white establishment. Radical Chic provocatively explores the relationship between Black rage and White guilt. Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, set in San Francisco at the Office of Economic Opportunity, details the corruption and dysfunction of the anti-poverty programs run at that time. Wolfe uncovers how much of the program's money failed to reach its intended recipients. Instead, hustlers gamed the system, causing the OEO efforts to fail the impoverished communities.

Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers

Author : Tom Wolfe
Publisher :
Release Date : 2013
ISBN 10 : OCLC:1112516662
Pages : 184 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (11 users)

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Spectacular Blackness

Author : Amy Abugo Ongiri
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2010
ISBN 10 : 9780813928593
Pages : 237 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (813 users)

Download Spectacular Blackness PDF Full or another Format written by Amy Abugo Ongiri and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the interface between the cultural politics of the Black Power and the Black Arts movements and the production of postwar African American popular culture, Amy Ongiri shows how the reliance of Black politics on an oppositional image of African Americans was the formative moment in the construction of "authentic blackness" as a cultural identity. While other books have adopted either a literary approach to the language, poetry, and arts of these movements or a historical analysis of them, Ongiri's captures the cultural and political interconnections of the postwar period by using an interdisciplinary methodology drawn from cinema studies and music theory. She traces the emergence of this Black aesthetic from its origin in the Black Power movement's emphasis on the creation of visual icons and the Black Arts movement's celebration of urban vernacular culture.

Flak-Catchers

Author : Lindsey Lupo
Publisher : Lexington Books
Release Date : 2010-12-02
ISBN 10 : 073913812X
Pages : 284 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (138 users)

Download Flak-Catchers PDF Full or another Format written by Lindsey Lupo and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2010-12-02 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flak-Catchers explores the ways in which riot commissions-the institutional bodies appointed by an executive in the aftermath of a race riot to determine a riot timeline, investigate causes, and offer prescriptions for change-have dealt with racial violence in the United States over the last century. In studying five American riots and their commissions this book shows that riot commissions only serve to give the appearance of strong and responsive government action during uncertain times. They primarily benefit the instituting body by focusing on a restoration of law and order while undermining any larger civil rights message.

I Am a Man!

Author : Steve Estes
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Release Date : 2006-03-08
ISBN 10 : 9780807876336
Pages : 252 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (87 users)

Download I Am a Man! PDF Full or another Format written by Steve Estes and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2006-03-08 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The civil rights movement was first and foremost a struggle for racial equality, but questions of gender lay deeply embedded within this struggle. Steve Estes explores key groups, leaders, and events in the movement to understand how activists used race and manhood to articulate their visions of what American society should be. Estes demonstrates that, at crucial turning points in the movement, both segregationists and civil rights activists harnessed masculinist rhetoric, tapping into implicit assumptions about race, gender, and sexuality. Estes begins with an analysis of the role of black men in World War II and then examines the segregationists, who demonized black male sexuality and galvanized white men behind the ideal of southern honor. He then explores the militant new models of manhood espoused by civil rights activists such as Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., and groups such as the Nation of Islam, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and the Black Panther Party. Reliance on masculinist organizing strategies had both positive and negative consequences, Estes concludes. Tracing these strategies from the integration of the U.S. military in the 1940s through the Million Man March in the 1990s, he shows that masculinism rallied men to action but left unchallenged many of the patriarchal assumptions that underlay American society.

The Electric Kool-aid Acid Test ; The Kandy-kolored Tangerine-flake Streamline Baby ; Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers

Author : Tom Wolfe
Publisher :
Release Date : 1990
ISBN 10 : OCLC:22431940
Pages : 926 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (22 users)

Download The Electric Kool-aid Acid Test ; The Kandy-kolored Tangerine-flake Streamline Baby ; Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers PDF Full or another Format written by Tom Wolfe and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 926 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Philadelphia's Black Mafia

Author : S.P. Griffin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2006-04-11
ISBN 10 : 9780306481321
Pages : 214 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (36 users)

Download Philadelphia's Black Mafia PDF Full or another Format written by S.P. Griffin and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-04-11 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philadelphia's 'Black Mafia' could be used as primary reading in deviance and organized crime courses. Academicians in the fields of criminology, sociology, history, political science and African-American Studies will find the book compelling and important. This book provides the first sociological analysis to date of Philadelphia's infamous "Black Mafia" which has organized crime (with varying degrees of success) in predominantly African-American sections of the city dating back to the late 1960's. Philadelphia's 'Black Mafia': -is a first step in developing both data and sophisticated theoretical propositions germane to the ongoing study of organized crime; -uses primary source documents, including confidential law enforcement files, court transcripts and interviews; -explores the group's activities in detail, depicting some of the most notorious crimes in Philadelphia's history; -thoroughly examines the organization of the Black Mafia and the group's alliances, conspiracies and conflicts; -challenges many of the current historical and theoretical assumptions regarding organized crime.

Literary Journalism in the United States of America and Slovenia

Author : Sonja Merljak Zdovc
Publisher : University Press of America
Release Date : 2008
ISBN 10 : 0761841563
Pages : 172 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (841 users)

Download Literary Journalism in the United States of America and Slovenia PDF Full or another Format written by Sonja Merljak Zdovc and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2008 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Slovenia is acquiring some volume of literary journalism written by Slovene journalists and writers. Author Sonja Merljak Zdovc suggests that more Slovene writers should prefer literary journalism because nonfiction is based on truth, facts, and data and appeals more to readers interested in real world stories. The honest, precise, profound, and sophisticated voice of literary journalism is becoming increasingly good for newspaper circulation, as it reaches not just the mind but also the heart of the reader. Thus the world of Slovene journalism should also take a rapid turn towards the stylized literary journalism seen in the United States. There journalists and writers realize that through literary journalism they could perhaps end a general decline of traditional print media by restoring to readers stories that uncover the universal struggle of the human condition."--BOOK JACKET.

Tom Wolfe

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Release Date : 2009
ISBN 10 : 9781438113517
Pages : 221 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (438 users)

Download Tom Wolfe PDF Full or another Format written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of critical essays about the works of Tom Wolfe.

The Purple Decades

Author : Tom Wolfe
Publisher : Random House
Release Date : 2018-06-21
ISBN 10 : 9781448181964
Pages : 416 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (448 users)

Download The Purple Decades PDF Full or another Format written by Tom Wolfe and published by Random House. This book was released on 2018-06-21 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Purple Decades brings together the author's own selections from his list of critically acclaimed publications, including the best from The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Radical Chic, From Bauhaus to Our House, The Right Stuff and the complete text of Mau-Mauing and the Flak Catchers. An essential introduction to the non-fiction writing of the inventor of New Journalism.

Mexico Reading the United States

Author : Linda Egan
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
Release Date : 2009-07-17
ISBN 10 : 9780826516404
Pages : 329 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (826 users)

Download Mexico Reading the United States PDF Full or another Format written by Linda Egan and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-17 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A provocative and uncommon reversal of perspective."--Elena Poniatowska.

The Participant

Author : Christopher M. Kelty
Publisher :
Release Date : 2020-01-21
ISBN 10 : 9780226666761
Pages : 337 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (226 users)

Download The Participant PDF Full or another Format written by Christopher M. Kelty and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-21 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Participation is everywhere today. It has been formalized, measured, standardized, scaled up, network-enabled, and sent around the world. Platforms, algorithms, and software offer to make participation easier, but new technologies have had the opposite effect. We find ourselves suspicious of how participation extracts our data or monetizes our emotions, and the more procedural participation becomes, the more it seems to recede from our grasp. In this book, Christopher M. Kelty traces four stories of participation across the twentieth century, showing how they are part of a much longer-term problem in relation to the individual and collective experience of representative democracy. Kelty argues that in the last century or so, the power of participation has dwindled; over time, it has been formatted in ways that cramp and dwarf it, even as the drive to participate has spread to nearly every kind of human endeavor, all around the world. The Participant is a historical ethnography of the concept of participation, investigating how the concept has evolved into the form it takes today. It is a book that asks, "Why do we participate?" And sometimes, "Why do we refuse?"

Andy Warhol, Prince of Pop

Author : Jan Greenberg
Publisher : Laurel Leaf
Release Date : 2009-03-25
ISBN 10 : 9780307513069
Pages : 224 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (37 users)

Download Andy Warhol, Prince of Pop PDF Full or another Format written by Jan Greenberg and published by Laurel Leaf. This book was released on 2009-03-25 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “IN THE FUTURE EVERYBODY will be world famous for 15 minutes.” The Campbell’s Soup Cans. The Marilyns. The Electric Chairs. The Flowers. The work created by Andy Warhol elevated everyday images to art, ensuring Warhol a fame that has far outlasted the 15 minutes he predicted for everyone else. His very name is synonymous with the 1960s American art movement known as Pop. But Warhol’s oeuvre was the sum of many parts. He not only produced iconic art that blended high and popular culture; he also made controversial films, starring his entourage of the beautiful and outrageous; he launched Interview, a slick magazine that continues to sell today; and he reveled in leading the vanguard of New York’s hipster lifestyle. The Factory, Warhol’s studio and den of social happenings, was the place to be. Who would have predicted that this eccentric boy, the Pittsburgh-bred son of Eastern European immigrants, would catapult himself into media superstardom? Warhol’s rise, from poverty to wealth, from obscurity to status as a Pop icon, is an absorbing tale—one in which the American dream of fame and fortune is played out in all of its success and its excess. No artist of the late 20th century took the pulse of his time—and ours—better than Andy Warhol. Praise for Vincent van Gogh: Portrait of an Artist: “This outstanding, well-researched biography is fascinating reading.”—School Library Journal, Starred “Readers will see not just the man but also the paintings anew.”—The Bulletin, Starred “An exceptional biography that reveals the humanity behind the myth.”—Booklist, Starred A Robert F. Sibert Honor Book An ALA Notable Book

I Love It When You Talk Retro

Author : Ralph Keyes
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Release Date : 2009-03-31
ISBN 10 : 1429952474
Pages : 320 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (952 users)

Download I Love It When You Talk Retro PDF Full or another Format written by Ralph Keyes and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2009-03-31 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An entertaining and informative book about the fashion and fads of language Today's 18-year-olds may not know who Mrs. Robinson is, where the term "stuck in a groove" comes from, why 1984 was a year unlike any other, how big a bread box is, how to get to Peyton Place, or what the term Watergate refers to. I Love It When You Talk Retro discusses these verbal fossils that remain embedded in our national conversation long after the topic they refer to has galloped off into the sunset. That could be a person (Mrs. Robinson), product (Edsel), past bestseller (Catch-22), radio or TV show (Gangbusters), comic strip (Alphonse and Gaston), or advertisement (Where's the beef?) long forgotten. Such retroterms are words or phrases in current use whose origins lie in our past. Ralph Keyes takes us on an illuminating and engaging tour through the phenomenon that is Retrotalk—a journey, oftentimes along the timelines of American history and the faultlines of culture, that will add to the word-lover's store of trivia and obscure references. "The phrase "drinking the Kool-Aid" is a mystery to young people today, as is "45rpm." Even older folks don't know the origins of "raked over the coals" and "cut to the chase." Keyes (The Quote Verifier) uses his skill as a sleuth of sources to track what he calls "retrotalk": "a slippery slope of puzzling allusions to past phenomena." He surveys the origins of "verbal fossils" from commercials (Kodak moment), jurisprudence (Twinkie defense), movies (pod people), cartoons (Caspar Milquetoast) and literature (brave new world). Some pop permutations percolated over decades: Radio's Take It or Leave It spawned a catch phrase so popular the program was retitled The $64 Question and later returned as TV's The $64,000 Question. Keyes's own book Is There Life After High School? became both a Broadway musical and a catch phrase. Some entries are self-evident or have speculative origins, but Keyes's nonacademic style and probing research make this both an entertaining read and a valuable reference work." --Publishers Weekly

Norman Podhoretz

Author : Thomas L. Jeffers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2010-06-14
ISBN 10 : 9780521198141
Pages : 409 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (521 users)

Download Norman Podhoretz PDF Full or another Format written by Thomas L. Jeffers and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-14 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first biography of the Jewish-American intellectual Norman Podhoretz, longtime editor of the influential magazine Commentary. As both an editor and a writer, he spearheaded the countercultural revolution of the 1960s and - after he "broke ranks" - the neoconservative response. For years he defined what was at stake in the struggle against communism; recently he has nerved America for a new struggle against jihadist Islam; always he has given substance to debates over the function of religion, ethics, and the arts in our society. The turning point of his life occurred, at the age of forty near a farmhouse in upstate New York, in a mystic clarification. It compelled him to "unlearn" much that he had earlier been taught to value, and it also made him enemies. Revealing the private as well as the public man, Thomas L. Jeffers chronicles a heroically coherent life.

Fear and Loathing in America

Author : Hunter S. Thompson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2011-09-27
ISBN 10 : 9781439126363
Pages : 784 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (439 users)

Download Fear and Loathing in America PDF Full or another Format written by Hunter S. Thompson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-09-27 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the king of “Gonzo” journalism and bestselling author who brought you Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas comes another astonishing volume of letters by Hunter S. Thompson. Brazen, incisive, and outrageous as ever, this second volume of Thompson’s private correspondence is the highly anticipated follow-up to The Proud Highway. When that first book of letters appeared in 1997, Time pronounced it "deliriously entertaining"; Rolling Stone called it "brilliant beyond description"; and The New York Times celebrated its "wicked humor and bracing political conviction." Spanning the years between 1968 and 1976, these never-before-published letters show Thompson building his legend: running for sheriff in Aspen, Colorado; creating the seminal road book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas; twisting political reporting to new heights for Rolling Stone; and making sense of it all in the landmark Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72. To read Thompson's dispatches from these years—addressed to the author's friends, enemies, editors, and creditors, and such notables as Jimmy Carter, Tom Wolfe, and Kurt Vonnegut—is to read a raw, revolutionary eyewitness account of one of the most exciting and pivotal eras in American history.

Race Experts

Author : Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2002
ISBN 10 : 074252759X
Pages : 292 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (527 users)

Download Race Experts PDF Full or another Format written by Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2002 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book illuminates how far away we are from the real race issues that are deserve our attention.