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Lure And Loathing: Essays on Race, Identity, and the Ambivalence of Assimilation
Representing a cross-section of African-American thought, Nikki Giovanni, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., James McPherson, and Stephen L. Carter address the "lure and loathing" that characterize the experience of black people in white America. 10,000 first printing.
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351 pages, Hardcover
First published February 1, 1993
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August 10, 2023
Two short passages from Lure And Loathing:
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“On the populist left, the then favored model of the oppositional spokesman was what Gramsci called the “organic intellectual”: someone who participated in and was part of the community he would uplift. And yet James Baldwin’s basic conception of himself was formed by the familiar, and still well-entrenched, idea of the alienated artist or intellectual, whose advanced sensibility entailed his estrangement from the very people he would represent. Baldwin could dramatize the tension between these two models – he would do so in his fiction – be he was never to resolve it.”
– Henry Louis Gates, Jr., The Welcome Table
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“The sister in Washington, D.C., who said, when asked her reaction to the Queen of England’s visit, ‘Well, she’s fascinating. But so am I.’”
– Kristin Hunter Lattany, Off-Timing: Stepping to the Different Drummer
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“On the populist left, the then favored model of the oppositional spokesman was what Gramsci called the “organic intellectual”: someone who participated in and was part of the community he would uplift. And yet James Baldwin’s basic conception of himself was formed by the familiar, and still well-entrenched, idea of the alienated artist or intellectual, whose advanced sensibility entailed his estrangement from the very people he would represent. Baldwin could dramatize the tension between these two models – he would do so in his fiction – be he was never to resolve it.”
– Henry Louis Gates, Jr., The Welcome Table
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“The sister in Washington, D.C., who said, when asked her reaction to the Queen of England’s visit, ‘Well, she’s fascinating. But so am I.’”
– Kristin Hunter Lattany, Off-Timing: Stepping to the Different Drummer
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January 9, 2009
I am using the essay "Black Is the Noun" by Nikki Giovanni to kick off an initial discussion of the significance of naming in my upcoming Black Kansas Artists course.
December 31, 2014
A great collection of essays that gave me a lot to think about and a lot of nuance for teaching Du Bois and black culture in general.
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