The Artificial White Man: essays on authenticity

By Stanley Crouch

Book Overview

Stanley Crouch uses his experience as a columnist, novelist, essayist, and television commentator to explore the subject of authenticity in music, writing, and theater, as well as political venues. Using such celebrities as Quentin Tarantino, Michael Jackson, Ernest Hemmingway, and others, he explores the genuiness of their works and how they relate to our perceptions of authenticity in their respective genres and how those perceptions fashion our beliefs and ideologies.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0465015166
• ISBN13: 9780465015160
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Civitas Book Publisher
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

Required Reading In American Hight Schools

This book should be required reading in every American High School. It exposes the fraud waged by a greedy, worthless music industry, MTV, BET and the talentless gang members who play no instruments and sign one-sided (in favor of the label) recording contracts. Rap is social poison that is tainting American youth and Stanley Crouch brilliantly exposes it.

a needed contrarian

I have little to add to the given product description. While his views may not be popular, his observations on how culture, race and stereotypes emerge and influence one another is cogent and worth a read, especially if you think that the issues of race are of little importance to the future of our society.