The All-American Skin Game, or Decoy of Race

The Long and the Short of It, 1990-1994

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In this brilliant collection of speeches, essays, and reviews, Crouch brings his vigorous, combative intellect to bear on everything from gangsta rap and the tribalism of minority politics to feminism and African-American literature. Whether he is comparing the U.S. Constitution to an extended blues improvisation, analyzing the implications of The Bell Curve wars, or discoursing gracefully on Miles Davis and Saul Bellow, Crouch is always fresh and provocative, and on every page turns this polemic into a high-wire act of erudition, brio, and verbal style.
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. View titles by Stanley Crouch
"A very shrewd commentator with an ability to spot the racial cant and hypocrisy with which our public discourse is infected"--The Washington Post

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In this brilliant collection of speeches, essays, and reviews, Crouch brings his vigorous, combative intellect to bear on everything from gangsta rap and the tribalism of minority politics to feminism and African-American literature. Whether he is comparing the U.S. Constitution to an extended blues improvisation, analyzing the implications of The Bell Curve wars, or discoursing gracefully on Miles Davis and Saul Bellow, Crouch is always fresh and provocative, and on every page turns this polemic into a high-wire act of erudition, brio, and verbal style.

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. View titles by Stanley Crouch

Praise

"A very shrewd commentator with an ability to spot the racial cant and hypocrisy with which our public discourse is infected"--The Washington Post

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