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I'm reading this book, off Faux Real's say so
It's great.Also, this is one of those books that I'll but 2 or 3 copies a year because I always end up giving my copies to friends of mine when I hear they have never read it.
Highly recommended.I'm interested in getting some more books for the crib. I just copped some joints that I slept on picking up (the Jeff Chang book, the Ego Trip Book of Racism, the Freddie Fresh book.)Anyone got any other things to attract my attention?
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talk about Soul Strut Econ fodder for days:
here's the NYT review:
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And I think this novel about the Biafran war is the best work of fiction I've read in at least two years:
Here's a book of photos--of the South Bronx in the late seventies--that I've been into lately:
I just started Wizard of the Crow by Kenyan author-in-exile Ngugi wa Thiong'o and it's already incredible. Pretty intimidating at over 700 pages but it's an incredible satire of post-colonial African governments. Also, when one of the greatest living African writers comes out with his first book in many years, you kind of have to read it.
Before that I read Warlock by Oakley Hall because I had a strong desire to read a good Western novel. I was kind of taken aback by how good it was, probably some of the best realist fiction I've ever read.
I got this as a gift and now I'm completely lost every time I go to the supermarket. It's a great piece of journalism on the state of American food production. Highly recommended.
Finished David Toop's Rap Attack a few weeks back, and having read more current hip-hop books before his, I think it still stands the test of time pretty well. By far the most interesting part is finding out how all the shady label heads who released early hip-hop records got involved, and how the "how do we put hip-hop on a record?" question was answered and changed over time.
That Sam Cooke book looks awesome, I'll have to check it out.
This is the last book that I read. Excellent, I mean EXCELLENT book about segregation and its effects upon African Americans.
I'm trying to catch up on a bunch of Iraq stuff right now plus I have to finish the last Wax Poetics, but next time I pick up a book it'll probably be this one:
It's an analysis of how various European ethnic groups who were villified when they first entered America, eventually became white.