Post-soul Nation: The Explosive, Contradictory, Triumphant, And Tragic 1980s as Experienced by African Americans

by Nelson George

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One of the foremost chroniclers of the contemporary black experience offers an undeluded perspective on the 1980s. Here are crack, AIDS, and the Reagan rollback of the major advances of the civil rights movement. But Nelson George also shows how black performers, athletes, and activists made increasing inroads into the mainstream. This fast-paced, chronological retrospective profiles personalities from Bill Cosby to Louis Farrakhan and explores such flashpoints as the first rap single and the infamous Willie Horton ad campaign.

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  • ISBN10 0143034472
  • ISBN13 9780143034476
  • Publish Date 26 April 2005 (first published 19 January 2004)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc
  • Imprint Penguin USA