Holler If You Hear Me,9780465017287

Holler If You Hear Me

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Edition: Reprint
ISBN13: 9780465017287
ISBN10: 0465017282
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2006-09-05
Publisher(s): Basic Books
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Summary

With a new preface by the author. Ten years after his murder, Tupac Shakur is even more loved, contested, and celebrated than he was in life. His posthumously released albums, poetry, and motion pictures have catapulted him into the upper echelon of American cultural icons. InHoller If You Hear Me, "hip-hop intellectual" Michael Eric Dyson, acclaimed author of the bestsellingIs Bill Cosby Right?, offers a wholly original way of looking at Tupac that will thrill those who already love the artist and enlighten those who want to understand him.

Author Biography

Michael Eric Dyson, named by Ebony as one of the hundred most influential black Americans, is the author of sixteen books, including Holler if You Hear Me, Is Bill Cosby Right? and I May Not Get There With You: The True Martin Luther King Jr. He is currently University Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University. He lives in Washington, D.C.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi
Introduction to the 2006 Edition: Holy Ghost xv
Preface: "I Always Wanted to Make a Book Out of My Life"
In Search of Tupac
1(20)
CHILDHOOD CHAINS, ADOLESCENT ASPIRATIONS
1 "Dear Mama"
21(26)
Motherhood and a Hood's Mother
2 "The Son of a Panther"
47(22)
A Postrevolutionary Childhood
3 "No Malcolm X in My History Text"
69(36)
School, Learning, and Tupac's Books
PORTRAITS OF AN ARTIST
4 "Give Me a Paper and a Pen"
105(36)
Tupac's Place in Hip-Hop
5 "For All the Real Niggas Out There"
141(34)
Authenticity Blues
BODIES AND BELIEFS
6 "Do We Hate Our Women?"
175(26)
Female Per Versions
7 "But Do the Lord Care?"
201(30)
God, Suffering, Compassion, and Death in the Ghetto
8 "I Got Your Name Tatted on My Arm"
231(16)
Reading the Black Body
Epilogue: "How Long Will They Mourn Me?" 247(22)
Posthumous Presences of a Ghetto Saint
Notes 269(3)
Bibliography 272(14)
Index 286

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