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Title: All-American Skin Game, or, The Decoy of Race, The : The Long and the Short of It, 1990-1994 by STANLEY CROUCH ISBN: 0-679-77660-5 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 14 January, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Great
Comment: Crouch continues to prove beyond any doubt to be an individual with the highest standard of literary precision. His insight into the human condition and clearness of thought are peerless in American correspndence.
Ken Mask, MD
New Orleans
Rating: 5
Summary: the long and the short of it
Comment: american's of all ages and colors should feel indebted to Mr. Crouch for writing some of the most interesting commentary on our american cultural scene. it is because crouch understands so well the basic promise and opportunity of american life that he can weave such wide-ranging and often disparate opinion without losing touch with the reality of the culture. most importantly, crouch establishes himself as part of the great triad of negro americans - along with the novelist albert murray and trumpet virtuoso wynton marsalis who seek to recommit americans to the power and complexity of our national music: jazz. this can only be done by tossing some left hooks at our great national embarrassment: namely the nihilism and materialism of modern popular music, especially rap music. the fact that this music has been co-opted by white suburban kids shows that it has long been a bankrupt and impotent force whose only purpose is to further depress the culture for the enrichment of a few. crouch is calling on americans of all stripes to turn their back on the 'electronic judgement day' of the mass media and the self-serving race-hustlers of the academic and literary establishment and rededicate the culture to jazz and literature based on the 'tragic optimism' that has always been at the heart of jazz/blues music and american culture. count me in.
Rating: 5
Summary: Politically-incorrect and passionate: Crouch hard to ignore.
Comment: Crouch has a long history as a politically incorrect commentator on the vexed questions of race & victim politics. From what he calls "the Afrocentric hustle" to the real "race card" played in the O.J. Simpson trial; a stunning suite of essays in praise of Ralph Ellison; and how the Constitution is like the blues, I found my self in passionate agreement & furious dissent - often within the same sentence. For pure verve, style & energy Crouch is possibly the only writer who stands with Camille Paglia as a thinker who is hard to like but impossible to ignore.
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Title: Always in Pursuit : Fresh American Perspectives by STANLEY CROUCH ISBN: 0375701680 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 16 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Notes of a Hanging Judge: Essays and Reviews, 1979-1989 by Stanley Crouch ISBN: 0195069986 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: March, 1991 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Reconsidering the Souls of Black Folk by Stanley Crouch, Playthell Benjamin ISBN: 0762413492 Publisher: Running Press Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Don't the Moon Look Lonesome : A novel by Stanley Crouch ISBN: 0375409327 Publisher: Pantheon Books Pub. Date: 25 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: The Omni-Americans: Some Alternatives to the Folklore of White Supremacy (Da Capo Press Paperback) by Albert Murray ISBN: 030680395X Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: April, 1990 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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