| Description |
95 pages ; 22 cm |
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I. Let us now praise famous magical negroes. I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background -- Magical negro #217: Diana Ross finishing a rib in Alabama, 1990s -- Everything will be taken away -- Magical negro #3: The strong black woman -- The high priestess of soul's Sunday morning visit to the wall of respect -- And cold sunset -- Nancy Meyers and my dream of whiteness -- Whites only -- Magical negro #607: Gladys Knight on the 200th episode of The Jeffersons -- Magical negro #84: The black body -- Sammy Davis Jr. -- Let's get some better angels at this party -- The history of black people -- II. Field negro field notes. Two white girls in the African braid ship on Marcy and Fulton -- "Now more than ever" -- Black women for beginners pt. 1 -- When a man I love jerks off in my bed next to me and falls asleep -- Who were Frederick Douglass's cousins, and other quotidian Black History facts that I wish I learned in school -- A brief history of the present -- Ode to fried chicken's guest appearance on Scandal -- Magical negro #1: Jesus Christ -- Matt -- "Lilac wine" by Eartha Kitt vs "Lilac wine" by Jeff Buckley -- What I am -- If you are over staying woke -- Who speaks for the Earth? -- Black ego (original soundtrack) -- I told my therapist I tried to meditate and she laughed -- "Parker's mood" by Charlie Parker -- III. Popular negro punchlines. Great America -- Magical negro #89: Michael Jackson in blackface on a date with Tatum O'Neal, 1970s -- Guess who's coming to dinner -- My sister says white supremacy is turning her crazy -- We are the house that holds the table at which yes we will happily take a goddamn seat -- Why the Jive Bird sings -- Magical negro #80: Brooklyn -- The black saint & the sinner lady & the dead & the truth -- Preface to a twenty volume joke book -- Toward a new theory of negro progaganda -- It was summer now and the colored people came out into the sunshine. |
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Poetry.
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| ISBN |
9781947793187 (pbk.) |
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