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my children, Michael Eric Dyson, II, Maisha and Cory Daniels, and Mwata Dyson, to whom this book is in part dedicated. And last, but surely not least, I want to thank the Rev. Marcia Louise Dyson, without whose steady love and deep devotion none of this—books, writing, lecturing, reading, preaching and more—could ever take place.

Index

    Accidental blackness strategy
    of Cosby
    description/examples
    “Acting white,”
    Adams, Charles
    Adams, Yolanda
    African Grove
    Afristocracy. See Black elite
    AIDS and black males
    Aldridge, Ira
    Amos ’n’ Andy
    Amsterdam News
    Anderson, Elijah
    Anti-intellectualism
    “acting white” and
    blacks vs. whites
    overview
    studies on
    through history
    Anti-Intellectualism in American Life (Hofstadter)
    Antitype stage of black identity
    benefits of
    black views of
    Cosby and
    description/examples
    hip-hop culture and
    Archetype stage of black identity
    Cosby and
    description/examples
    hip-hop culture and
    as positive

    Baggy pants
    Baker, Ella
    Baldwin, James
    on Black English
    Gayz and
    as Ghettocentrist

    Barbershop
    Barnes, Leroy “Nicky,”
    Barro, Robert J.
    Baum, Robert M.
    Bell Curve, The (Smith and Murray)
    Beloved (Morrison)
    Berry, Faith
    criticism of Cosby
    on I Spy
    on The Bill Cosby Show
    Bertrand, Marianne
    Bethune, Mary McCleod
    Bill Cosby Show, The
    Black English and
    critics on
    description
    race and
    Birth of a Nation
    Black authenticity
    authenticity anxiety
    black youth fashion
    complexity of
    Cosby’s comments on
    styles of black identity and
    The Cosby Show and
    tribalism and
    what is real
    Black consumerism
    Chin’s study/findings on
    Cosby and materialism
    Cosby’s criticism of
    defense of
    Black elite
    Du Bois on
    irresponsibility and
    “policing” of poor blacks
    responsibility to help the poor
    Black English
    Cosby’s use of
    description
    function of
    James Baldwin on
    origins of See also Ebonics
    Black fashion
    baggy pants
    black elite/black poor
    blacks showing deference and
    of black youth
    Cosby’s criticism of
    early black musicians and
    early white criticism of
    “ghetto chic”/“ghetto couture,”
    Great Migration and
    hip-hop and
    history of
    identity and
    as performance art

    of poor
    rap music and
    sympathy dress and
    war against urban black poor and
    whites and (in 1800s)
    Black female religious circles
    Black History: Lost, Stolen, or Strayed
    Black identity
    complexity of
    Du Bois on
    genres of
    as positive or negative
    stages of
    status of
    strategies of
    styles of See also Black authenticity
    Black inferiority myth
    Black names/naming
    African names/nicknames
    “African survivals,”
    after slavery
    behavior problems and
    black pride and
    brand names and
    Cosby’s criticism of
    criticism of
    discrimination and
    by Gullahs
    popular personalities with unique names
    Sambo
    slave naming
    slavery and
    socioeconomic status and
    unique names
    unique names/gender
    unique names studies
    Black parenting
    comments on (early 1900s)
    Cosby’s criticism of
    Body modifications
    Africa and
    of blacks
    body painting
    Cosby’s criticism of
    criticism of
    early cultures and
    piercings
    scarification
    tattooing
    Body painting
    Bonds of Atlanta
    Bonvicini, Joan
    Boykin, Keith
    Brokaw, David
    Brown, Sterling

    Brown v. Board of Education
    goal of See also Cosby’s speech at Brown v. Board of Education celebration
    Bruce, Lenny
    Butts, Calvin

    California Suite
    Cosby on
    critics on
    description
    Calloway, Cab
    Cambridge, Godfrey
    Camden, New Jersey schools
    Canady, Michael
    Carmichael, Stokely (Kwame Toure)
    “Cellblocks or Classrooms? The Funding of Higher Education and Corrections and Its Impact on African American Men” (JPI)
    Charles, Ray
    Chicago public schools
    Chin, Elizabeth
    Christon, Lawrence
    Chuck D.
    Civil Rights Act (1964)
    Civil Rights Act (1968/Fair Housing Act)
    Clark, Kenneth
    Cleaver, Eldridge
    Coates, Ta-Nehisi
    Cobb, William Jelani
    Cocker, Joe
    Cole, Nat King
    Combs, Sean “P. Diddy,”
    Comics of color
    intentional blackness