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Book Cover for: The All-American Skin Game, or Decoy of Race: The Long and the Short of It, 1990-1994, Stanley Crouch

The All-American Skin Game, or Decoy of Race: The Long and the Short of It, 1990-1994

Stanley Crouch

In this brilliant collection of speeches, essays, and reviews both long and short, the vigorous intellectual combatant Stanley Crouch gives us refreshing iconoclastic views on race and culture in American society from 1990 to 1994.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
  • Publish Date: Jan 14th, 1997
  • Pages: 288
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.01in - 5.21in - 0.67in - 0.50lb
  • EAN: 9780679776604
  • Categories: Cultural & Ethnic Studies - American - African American & BlCultural & RegionalAmerican Government - General

About the Author

Stanley Crouch has been a contributing editor to The New Republic, is an editorial columnist for the New York Daily News, and is a frequent panelist on television and radio talk shows. He is the author of Always in Pursuit, The All-American Skin Game (which was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award), Don't the Moon Look Handsome?, and Notes of a Hanging Judge. For years a staff writer for the Village Voice, he is artistic consultant to jazz at Lincoln Center. A recipient of a MacArthur fellowship, Crouch lives in New York City.

Praise for this book

"A very shrewd commentator with an ability to spot the racial cant and hypocrisy with which our public discourse is infected"--The Washington Post