A scathing satire on racism introduces white teen Bubbles Brasil and her crazed, drug-affected idea of African-American culture, as she wanders through a grotesque nightmare world meeting such figures as the cosmic Sambo and the Licorice Men. Reprint.

Negrophobia: An Urban Parable

Literature & Fiction

James, Darius

United States

St. Martin's: Griffin

Looks at the history of "blaxploitation" films, especially those featuring Melvin Van Peebles, Richard Roundtree, Jim Brown, Jim Kelly, Pam Grier, and Tamara Dobson

That's Blaxploitation!: Roots of the Baadasssss 'Tude (Rated X by an All-Whyte Jury)

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

After Bubbles Brasil, a white teenager, is placed under a voodoo spell, she enters a world populated by every stereotype of black people she has ever imagined.

Negrophobia: An Urban Parable : A Novel

Citadel Pr

Sensitive Skin #9 features an exclusive interview with, and music by, seminal guitarist Fred Frith (Henry Cow), the missing chapter from the latest novel by science fiction legend Samuel R. Delaney, a portfolio of paintings from actor (Stranger Than Paradise) and musician (Lounge Lizards) John Lurie, a memoir by Marty Thau, former manager of Suicide and The New York Dolls, a new translation of poetry by Vladimir Mayakovsky, photographs of the seamy side of Tijuana by Chris Bava and an interview with Darius James conducted by Ghazi Barakat, about his new documentary, 'The United States of Hoodoo.' The front cover is by illustrator J.D. King, and the back cover features a comic written and drawn by James Romberger. There's more writing, by Doug Rice, Susan Scutti, Larissa Shmailo, Bradley Spinelli, Anna Mockler, Jesus Angel Garcia, and Aman Sabet, as well as art by Ha Young Kim, Marcin Owczarek, John Griffin, David West and Justine Frischmann, and photographs by Ted Barron, Ruby Ray, Hal Hirshorn, N.D. Koster and Geoffrey Ithen. Sensitive Skin, an anthology of post-beat, pre-apocalyptic art, writing, music and whatnot, features work by both world-famous and new-and-emerging artists, writers, and musicians from around the globe.

Sensitive Skin #9: post-beat, pre-apocalyptic art, writing and music

DELANY, Samuel

Thau, Marty

Frith, Fred

Literary

Sensitive Skin Books

A provocative, raucous dark comedy about race and racism in America, now back in print after twenty-five years and with a new preface by the author. Darius James’s scabrous, unapologetically raunchy, truly hilarious, and deeply scary Negrophobia is a wild-eyed reckoning with the mutating insanity of American racism. A screenplay for the mind, a performance on the page, a work of poetry, a mad mix of genres and styles, a novel in the tradition of William S. Burroughs and Ishmael Reed that is like no other novel, Negrophobia begins with the blonde bombshell Bubbles Brazil succumbing to a voodoo spell and entering the inner darkness of her own shiny being. Here crackheads parade in the guise of Muppets, Muslims beat conga drums, Negroes have numbers for names, and H. Rap Remus demands the total and instantaneous extermination of the white race through spontaneous combustion. By the end of it all, after going on a weird trip for the ages, Bubbles herself is strangely transformed.

Negrophobia: An Urban Parable (New York Review Books Classics)

Dramas & Plays

NYRB Classics

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