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An edition of Open Mike (2002)

Open mike

reflections on philosophy, race, sex, culture and religion

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Open mike: reflections on philosophy, race, sex, culture and religion
2003, Basic Civitas Books
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Open Mike: Reflections on Philosophy, Race, Sex, Culture and Religion
December 24, 2002, Basic Civitas Books
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Table of Contents

Philosophy, theory and race. Not from some racial Zeus's head : my intellectual development. Textual acts and semiotic gestures : race, writing and technotopia. Baptizing theory, representing truth : religious discourse, poststructuralist theory and multiculturalism. More than academic : seamless theory, racial disruptions and public intellectuals in the ebony tower. Trump cards : racial paradigms, postcolonial theory and feminist thought. Giving whiteness a black eye : excavating white identities, ideologies and institutions. "Is it something I said?" : dissident speech, plantation Negro syndrome, and the politics of self-respect
Cultural studies. Is postmodernism just modernism in drag? : Black identities in flux. The great next : jazz origins and the anatomy of improvisation. Black fists and sole brothers : the 1968 Olympics. Adjusting the color : television, race and culture. "I love Black people, but I hate niggas" : intellectuals, Black comedy and the politics of self-criticism
Religious beliefs, theological arguments. "Searching for Black Jesus" : the Nietzschean quest of a metaphysical thug. "Speech is my hammer" : Black preaching, social justice and rap rhetoric. Ecstasy, excess and eschatology : Black religion in crisis. The anatomy of radical Christianity : tracing Martin Luther King, Jr.'s dangerous legacy. Prophetic Black Islamic ethics : Malcolm X, spiritual warfare and angry Black love. Homotextualities : the Bible, sexual ethics and the theology of homoeroticism

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 385-415) and index

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New York
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Reflections on philosophy, race, sex, culture and religion

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Library of Congress
E185.625 .D97 2003

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Pagination
xxi, 426 p. ;
Number of pages
426

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Open Library
OL17071742M
Internet Archive
openmikereflecti0000dyso
ISBN 10
0465017657
LCCN
2002013467
OCLC/WorldCat
50560445
Library Thing
76849
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134227

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