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 This latest piece from Marvin X offers a peek into his soul and his psyche. He lets

the reader know he is hip to the rabid oppression the West heaps upon

people of color especially North American Africans

 
 

 

In the Crazy House Called America

Essays By Marvin X

"He walked through the muck and mire of hell

and came out clean as white fish and black as coal"

Contents

Introduction

Reviews  Healing Peek Review   Other Crazy Reviews  Marvin X Unplugged -- An Interview 

  

Part One: A Beautiful Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Lose
3 Manic Oppression and the Suicide of My Son 
7 A Beautiful Mind
11 In the Crazy House of the Negro
17 Are Christians Crazy?
22 The Psycholinguistic Crisis of the North American Africans
30 Insanity of Sex
33 Artists as Crack Heads
34 Drama as Therapeutic Education
Part Two: Ranting in the Wilderness
41 Blacks Losing Clout in San Francisco
42 63% of Black 4th Graders Can't Read
43 Free Speech
44 Davey D -- Revolutionary Rain
47 Julian Richardson
49 Dr. Khalid Muhammad
50 Light in A Cell -- Imam Jamil Al Amin (H. Rap Brown)
52 Happy Birthday, Amiri Baraka, toward a United Front
55 Farrakhan
59 Malcolm X
61 Malcolm and Betty
63 Notes on the Pan African Revolution
64 Afro-Mexico
64 What Happened to My Black Family
68 The Maid, The Ho', The Cook
71 John Eleven
72 Dear Son
73 On Addiction and Children
Part Three: Butt Naked at Venice Beach: Reviews
79 Beyond Words
83 Love Song for Angie Stone
85 Training Day
87 A Huey Newton Story
90 Hip Hop, The New World Order
92 Ali
101 Baby Boy
106 Babylon Brooklyn
108 Traffic
113 The Green Mile
115 Eastside
117 Bilalian
121 Lumumba
125 Fidel
128 As an Act of Protest
131 Ma Rainey's Black Bottom or Back That Ass Up
Part Four: 9/11
137 Powell as Dove
138 Who Is the World's Greatest Terrorist?
141 Held at Gunpoint
143 Beyond Bin Laden
145 Wanted: One Hundred Black Murderers
146 Elijah as Mythologist
149 Africa and the Islamic Revolution
151 I Support the PLO but Not in the Ghetto
152 Lawrence of Arabia
154 My Son the Fanatic
157 Religion and Revolution
161 Voodoo Is a Democratic Society
Part Five: Final Ranting
165 Neo-Colonial Negro Intellectuals
167 J. California Cooper
168 Dr. Cornel West at U.C. Berkeley
169 Two Black Birds in the White House
170 Black Panther Elaine Brown
172 Back in the Day, That Poetry Reading
173 Breakfast with Poetess Sonia Sanchez
177 Recovery Ranch: A Dream Deferred
180 Let There be Peace in the Hood
181 Abstract for a Young Men's Workshop
183 Abstract for a Council of Elders
186 AIDS and the Death of Friends
190 The Brother
192 Anger Management during the Holidays and Every Day
195 Hunger in America
197 Hey, Got a Cigarette?
198 Call for a General Strike
200 Parable of Black Man and Block Man
   
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