From the Book - First AUWA books edition.
Introduction by Hanif Abdurraqib
Section one: The Iron Man cometh. Knee deep in Blood Ulmer
Hardcore of darkness : Bad Brains
Cecil Taylor's Monster movie
The Atomic Dog : George Clinton interview by Greg Tate and Bob Wisdom
Beyond the zone of the zero funkativity
Baby Miles and Baby Wayne : Wynton Marsalis
Stagolee versus the proper Negro : the treacherous three cross over : Prince, Wynton Marsalis, and Eddie Murphy
Are you ready for juju? : King Sunny Ade
Silence, exile, and cunning : Miles Davis in memoriam
Call me Abraxas : Santana
Beat the message too : Ram-El-Zed v. K-Rob
I'm white! : what's wrong with Michael Jackson
The GOP throws a mammy-jammy : Black stars bowl over Bush at blues summit
Clitoral madness : A R Kane
'Taint nobody's business : Adeva
Change of the century : Ornette Coleman
Invisible man overboard : Marc Anthony Thompson
Homeys on the range : Public Enemy
The devil made 'em do it : Public Enemy
Yabba dabba doo-wop : De La Soul
Section two: Yo! Hermeneutics!. Yo! Hermeneutics! : Henry Louis Gates, Houston Baker, and David Toop
Ghetto in the sky : Samuel Delany's Black whole
Growing up in public : Amiri Baraka changes his mind
Guerrilla scholar on the loose : Robert Farris Thompson gets down
Cult-nats meet freaky-deke
Signs and cymbals : Nathaniel Mackey's postmod pop
You look fabulist : Steve Erickson's Wild kingdom
White magic : Don DeLillo's intelligence networks
Dread or alive : William Gibson
Nobody loves a genius child : Jean Michel Basquiat, flyboy in the buttermilk
Fear of a mutt palette : art and ancestry in The Colored Museum
Section three: Soapboxing for the city. Leadership follies
