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Title: Mostly Fails to Deliver
Review: You can see in the aggressive, attitude-copping title and subtitle where Tate thought he was going with this book, but he doesn't get anywhere near the mark. A lazily-edited, not well thought-through mixed bag of essays, poetry, memoirs and anecdotes, it vogues with some heat but brings little light and few insights to the notion of white folks apropriating black culture. A few good, smart entries--Hilton Als, Manthia Diawara, a couple others--but the real problem is that Tate provided no editorial cohesion or coherence, no real sociological framework, historical perspective or philosophical focus. He just threw a bunch of pieces together and called it a book. It's a huge, important topic that deserves much more thought and care than this--which is how many other, better books treat it.
