Keepin' It Real : Post-MTV Reflections on Race, Sex, and Politics
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Book Description
In Keepin' It Real, writer, poet, and cultural critic Kevin Powell puts both himself and society under a microscope and creates a searingly honest collection that is at once powerful and disturbing. Within this rich weave of musings, confession, and sometimes painful introspection, he confronts such issues as racism, black self-hatred, gender violence in the '90s, and his own anguished revelations about sex, love, and misogyny. He also explores the meaning and myths of the Million Man March and the influential and threatening presence of rap music. Like that musical movement, Kevin Powell samples the sights and sounds and scenarios of American life, then reshapes them into a provocative soundtrack for our times.
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In Keepin' It Real, writer, poet, and cultural critic Kevin Powell puts both himself and society under a microscope and creates a searingly honest collection that is both powerful and disturbing. Powell's letters and reflections take us on the dizzying tight-rope walk between two worlds. From the poverty and misery of his New Jersey childhood to the excesses and successes of his mercurial rise to prominence, it is a life lived on the cutting edge. Within this rich weave of musings, confession, and sometimes painful introspection, Powell confronts such issues as racism, black self-hatred, gender violence in the nineties, and his own anguished revelations about sex, love, and misogyny. He also explores the meaning and myths of the Million Man March and the influential and threatening presence of rap music.
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Keepin' It Real : Post-MTV Reflections on Race, Sex, and Politics
Keepin' It Real : Post-MTV Reflections on Race, Sex, and Politics,Kevin Powell,One World/Ballantine,0345424786,Anthropology - Cultural,Men's Studies - General,People of Color,Popular Culture - General,Social Science,Sociology,Social Science / Popular Culture
Keepin' It Real : Post-MTV Reflections on Race, Sex, and Politics
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