Word: niggerism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cover. There's nothing there but a white background and, in the center, a big black hand curled into the sign that says fuck you. Take a look, not only because it is the most graphic illustration of everything that The Life and Loves of Mr. Jiveass Nigger ends up being about, but also because, by the end of the book -by the time Cecil Brown has led you through the garish circus of lies, illusions, and rip offs that go reeling through the world of his characters - it will be good to have a "message" that definite and unequivocal...
...character whose adventures make up most of the novel's action. Mr. Jiveass Nigger himself, is a young black from the rural South with the unfortunate name of...well...George Washington. Jiveass is a first degree con artist, a black stud who lives off white women and weaves a reality out of the lives he hands off to the world at large. The lies succeed in ripping off everyone but himself, and so he leaves America for Denmark hoping to find out if there is any way to survive without the lies, to see if there is "any mother fucker...
...classic routines of American comedy. On a funkier level is Richard Pryor. Aside from his extensive repertory of anal and armpit gags, Pryor does such splendidly satirical routines as "It's a bat, it's a crow, it's a job for SUPER NIGGER!" A totally different sort of innovator is Irwin C. Watson, who takes a gently self-mocking, cerebral approach to blackness. "I wasn't too surprised to hear there was a group starting a back-to-Africa movement. They say that within the next ten years, all of the people of African descent...
...because they are black. As one artist put it: "The black artist is a man, baby, not some kind of plastic superman you can make tap dance to Whitey's tune." Said another scornfully: "If they want black art, just take a canvas, paint it black, call it Nigger Number One, and they...
...statistical value in winning Government contract awards. An entirely white company, for instance, might come under criticism from civil rights groups and then find it difficult to get new federal contracts. A recruiter for one large textile firm, interviewing business students at Atlanta University, confided, "We want a token nigger...