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Reflecting Black: African American Cultural Criticism

Reflecting Black: African American Cultural Criticism Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/black-sacred-music/article-pdf/8/2/99/793280/99madison.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 13 February 2021 Book Reviews Michael Eric Dyson. Reflecting Black: African American Cultural Criticism. Minneapo­ lis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993. Pp. xxxiii, 346. As we move toward the twenty-first century, culture, more than ever, has become a web of contradictions, differences, and ambigui­ ties. We are in closer contact-whether in our neighborhoods or in the media-with people, worldviews, and symbols that are not only different from our own but also that often contest the very values we hold sacred. These points of diversity are curious and compli­ cated, for they can be painfully threatening at one moment and richly extending our ways of thinking and being in the world at the next. As a result, there is this back-and-forth, this slippery terrain between embracing otherness and clashing with it. Therefore, we need all the help possible to figure out how to live with the enigma of cultural differences. One offer of assistance is extended by the contemporary cultural critic whose intent it is to name and clarify the contradictions and ambiguities that have left most of us ambiva­ lent at best and mean-spirited at worst. Such critics are neither infallible http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Black Sacred Music Duke University Press

Reflecting Black: African American Cultural Criticism

Madison, D. Soyini
Black Sacred Music , Volume 8 (2) – Sep 1, 1994
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Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/black-sacred-music/article-pdf/8/2/99/793280/99madison.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 13 February 2021 Book Reviews Michael Eric Dyson. Reflecting Black: African American Cultural Criticism. Minneapo­ lis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993. Pp. xxxiii, 346. As we move toward the twenty-first century, culture, more than ever, has become a web of contradictions, differences, and ambigui­ ties. We are in closer contact-whether in our neighborhoods or in the media-with people, worldviews, and symbols that are not only different from our own but also that often contest the very values we hold sacred. These points of diversity are curious and compli­ cated, for they can be painfully threatening at one moment and richly extending our ways of thinking and being in the world at the next. As a result, there is this back-and-forth, this slippery terrain between embracing otherness and clashing with it. Therefore, we need all the help possible to figure out how to live with the enigma of cultural differences. One offer of assistance is extended by the contemporary cultural critic whose intent it is to name and clarify the contradictions and ambiguities that have left most of us ambiva­ lent at best and mean-spirited at worst. Such critics are neither infallible

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