Robin D. G. Kelley - Yo mamas disfunktional!: fighting the culture wars in urban America
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In this vibrant, thought-provoking book, Kelley, the preeminant historian of black popular culture writing today (Cornel West) shows how the multicolored urban working class is the solution to the ills of American cities. He undermines widespread misunderstandings of black culture and shows how they have contributed to the failure of social policy to save our cities.
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Yo' Mama's Disfunktional!
Fighting the Culture Wars in Urban America
Robin D.G. Kelley
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Beacon Press 25 Beacon Street Boston, Massachusetts 02108-2892 http://www.beacon.org
Beacon Press books are published under the auspices of the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations.
1997 by Robin D.G. Kelley All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America
"Horn of Plenty" from Collected Poems by Langston Hughes (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1994). Copyright 1994 by Langston Hughes. Reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
"Chocolate City," by George Clinton. Copyright 1975 by Bridgeport Music, Inc. (BMI). Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
Chapter 2 appeared in a slightly revised form as "Playing for Keeps: African American Youth in the Postindustrial City," in The House that Race Built: Black Americans / U.S. Terrain, ed. Wahneema Lubiano (New York: Random House, 1997), 195231. Copyright 1997 by Robin D. G. Kelley.
Portions of chapter 5 appeared in a revised form in Robin D. G. Kelley, "The Proletariat Goes to College," Social Text 14:4 (Winter 1996), 3742. Copyright 1996 by Duke University Press. Reprinted by permission of Duke University Press. All rights reserved.
The epilogue first appeared as "Introduction: Looking B(l)ackward: African American Studies in the Age of Identity Politics," in Race Consciousness: African-American Studies for the New Century, eds. Judith Jackson Fossett and Jeffrey A. Tucker (New York: New York University Press, 1997). Copyright 1997 by New York University Press. Reprinted by permission of New York University Press. All rights reserved.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Kelley, Robin D. G. Yo' mama's disfunktional! : fighting the culture wars in urban America / Robin D. G. Kelley. p. cm. ISBN 0-8070-0940-7 (cloth) ISBN 0-8070-0941-5 (paper) 1. Afro-AmericansSocial conditions. 2. Urban poorUnited StatesSocial conditions. 3. Inner citiesUnited States. 4. Afro-American familiesSocial conditions. 5. United StatesRace relations. 6. Afro-AmericansCivil rightsGovernment policy. I. Title. E185.86.K45 1997 305.896'073dc21 97-20067
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DEDICATED TO THE ONLY SANE, FULLY FUNCTIONAL PERSON I KNOW: MY MOTHER, ANANDA SATTWA
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Contents
Introduction
1
Chapter One Looking for the "Real" Nigga: Social Scientists Construct the Ghetto
15
Chapter Two Looking to Get Paid: How Some Black Youth Put Culture to Work
43
Chapter Three Looking Backward: The Limits of Self-Help Ideology
78
Chapter Four Looking Extremely Backward: Why the Enlightenment Will Only Lead Us into the Dark
103
Chapter Five Looking Forward How the New Working Class Can Transform Urban America
125
Epilogue Looking B(L)ackward: 20971997
159
Notes
181
Props, Respect, and Love
211
Index
216
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Introduction
They rung my bell to ask me. Could I recommend a maid. I said, yes, your mama.
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