The All-American Skin Game, or Decoy of Race: The Long and the Short of It, 1990-1994 - Hardcover

Crouch, Stanley

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679442022 ISBN 13: 9780679442028

Publisher: Pantheon, 1995

Synopsis

A collection of essays by a controversial writer and critic provides an iconoclastic view of race in American culture and society, and considers such topics as blues, the myth of the rebel, and Dizzy Gillespie. 15,000 first printing. Tour.

About this title

About the Author:

Stanley Crouch has been a contributing editor to The New Republic, is an editorial columnist for the New York Daily News, and is a frequent panelist on television and radio talk shows. He is the author of Always in Pursuit, The All-American Skin Game (which was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award), Don't the Moon Look Handsome?, and Notes of a Hanging Judge. For years a staff writer for the Village Voice, he is artistic consultant to jazz at Lincoln Center. A recipient of a MacArthur fellowship, Crouch lives in New York City.

From the Inside Flap:

ection of essays long and short, the hugely controversial critic and author of Notes of a Hanging Judge gives us a refreshingly iconoclastic view of race in American culture and society. Whether Crouch is writing about the U.S. Constitution as blues, or jazz (Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Wynton Marsalis), he is always incisive and provocative.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pantheon
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0679442022
• ISBN 13: 9780679442028
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 267