{"product_id":"everything-but-the-burden-what-white-people-are-taking-from-black-culture-9780767914970","title":"Everything But the Burden: What White People Are Taking from Black Culture","description":"White kids from the 'burbs are throwing up gang signs. The 2001 Grammy winner for best rap artist was as white as rice. And blond-haired sorority sisters are sporting FUBU gear. What is going on in American culture that's giving our nation a racial-identity crisis?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eFollowing the trail blazed by Norman Mailer's controversial essay \"The White Negro,\" \u003ci\u003eEverything but the Burden\u003c\/i\u003e brings together voices from music, popular culture, the literary world, and the media speaking about how from Brooklyn to the Badlands white people are co-opting black styles of music, dance, dress, and slang. In this collection, the essayists examine how whites seem to be taking on, as editor Greg Tate's mother used to tell him, \"everything but the burden\"-from fetishizing black athletes to spinning the ghetto lifestyle into a glamorous commodity. Is this a way of shaking off the fear of the unknown? A flattering indicator of appreciation? Or is it a more complicated cultural exchange? The pieces in \u003ci\u003eEverything but the Burden \u003c\/i\u003eexplore the line between hero-worship and paternalism. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAmong the book's twelve essays are Vernon Reid's \"Steely Dan Understood as the Apotheosis of 'The White Negro, '\" Carl Hancock Rux's \"The Beats: America's First 'Wiggas, '\" and Greg Tate's own introductory essay \"Nigs 'R Us.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOther contributors include: Hilton Als, Beth Coleman, Tony Green, Robin Kelley, Arthur Jafa, Gary Dauphin, Michaela Angela Davis, dream hampton, and Manthia diAwara. \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Greg Tate\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Crown Publishing Group (NY)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/09\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.78lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.66h x 5.42w x 0.66d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780767914970","brand":"Crown Publishing Group (NY)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44322483798153,"sku":"9780767914970","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_b7cad82f-6d1c-4848-9558-e8113c3c99c2.jpg?v=1750138143","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/everything-but-the-burden-what-white-people-are-taking-from-black-culture-9780767914970","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}