Library Record
Metadata
Collection |
Sylvia Gaither Garrison Library Reference Collection |
Title |
Black genius : African American solutions to African American problems / |
Alternate Titles |
edited by Walter Mosley ... [et al.] ; and with an introduction by Walter Mosley. |
Additional Authors |
Mosley, Walter. |
Call# |
E185.86 .B52556 1999 |
Published Place |
New York : |
Publisher |
W.W. Norton, |
Edition |
1st ed. |
Search Terms |
African Americans Social conditions 1975- Social values United States Intellectual life 20th century Conduct of life |
Subjects |
African Americans--Social conditions--1975- Social values--United States. African Americans--Intellectual life--20th century. African Americans--Conduct of life. |
Format |
Book |
ISBN |
0393047016 978039304 |
Control# |
ocm39692285 |
Notes |
Table of Contents: Introduction / Walter Mosley -- Dealing to do doable films: Life as a very independent independent filmmaker / Spike Lee -- Giving back / Walter Mosley -- As serious as first love: building Black independent institutions / Haki Madhubuti -- Get on-line! / George Curry -- Blood money or money and bloods / Melvin Van Peebles -- Simple living: an antidote to hedonistic materialism / Bell Hooks -- Wall Street, Main Street, and the side street / Julianne Malveaux -- Educating on behalf of Black public health / Joycelyn Elders -- Prison abolition / Angela Davis -- Holding the media accountable / Farai Chideya -- Straighten up and fly right: an improvisation on the podium / Stanley Crouch -- Public lives, private selves: toward an open conversation / Anna Deavere Smith -- Perfecting our democracy for the benefit of the Black world / Randall Robinson. |