Everything but the burden

Description:

Takes an exhilarating, controversial look at how white culture has rendered the progenitors [African Americans] of the nation's creative profile as the most alluring, co-optable, and erasable of beings. [book cover].

subjects: African Americans,  Race relations,  African American influences,  Whites,  Intellectual life,  Racism,  Civilization,  Attitudes,  Social conditions,  Culture conflict,  African americans, civilization,  African americans, miscellanea,  Popular culture, united states,  Imitation,  White people