PDF-(BOOS)-Out Of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa

Keith B Richburg was an experienced and respected reporter who had paid his dues covering urban neighborhoods in Washington DC and won praise for his coverage of Southeast Asia But nothing prepared him for the personal odyssey that he would embark upon when he was assigned to cover Africa In this powerful book Richburg takes the reader on an extraordinary journey that sweeps from Somalia to Rwanda to Zaire and finally to South Africa He shows how he came to terms with the divide within himself between his African racial heritage and his American cultural identity Are these really my people Am I truly an AfricanAmerican The answer Richburg finds after much soulsearching is that no he is not an African but an American first and foremost To those who romanticize Mother Africa as a black Valhalla where blacks can walk with dignity and pride he regrets that this is not the reality He has been there and witnessed the killings the repression the false promises and the horror Thank God my nameless ancestor brought across the ocean in chains and leg irons made it out alive he concludes Thank God I am an American. 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In Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America, Tricia Rose, described by the New York Times as a hip hop theorist, takes a comprehensive look at the lyrics, music, cultures, themes, and styles of this highly rhythmic, rhymed storytelling and grapples with the most salient issues and debates that surround it.Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and History at New York University, Tricia Rose sorts through rap\'s multiple voices by exploring its underlying urban cultural politics, particularly the influential New York City rap scene, and discusses rap as a unique musical form in which traditional African-based oral traditions fuse with cutting-edge music technologies. Next she takes up rap\'s racial politics, its sharp criticisms of the police and the government, and the responses of those institutions. 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Compelling and accessible, drawing on a rich array of both classic and contemporary research, A Peculiar Indifference describes the dimensions and consequences of this enduring emergency, explains its causes, and offers an urgent plea for long-overdue social action to end it.