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Black Cool: One Thousand Streams of Blackness.(Brief article)(Book review)
Black Cool: One Thousand Streams of Blackness
Edited by Rebecca Walker. Soft Skull, $14.95 trade paper (224p) ISBN 978-1-59376-417-3
Despite the slenderness of this collection of essays on the zen of cool by several influential cultural visionaries, Walker (Black, White and Jewish) knows how to approach a fashionable theme from all angles. After an informed foreword by historian Henry Louis Gates Jr., the various commentaries on the fundamentals and potential of this African-American cultural export domestically and globally are written by such trendsetters as writer Mat Johnson, performing artist Staceyann Chin, critic Dream Hampton, photographer Dawoud Bey, writer …
