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The Artificial White Man: Essays on Authenticity
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Hardcover
Book cover for 9780465015153
 
from Basic Books (October 30, 2004)
9780465015153 | details & prices | 244 pages | 5.75 × 8.75 × 0.75 in. | 0.85 lbs | List price $24.00
About: A look at racial politics in the arts examines the idea of authenticity and the national fixation on finding 'the real thing' by investigating the motives of those that claim to be authentic and those that call those claims into question.
Paperback
Book cover for 9780465015160
 
from Basic Civitas Books (November 7, 2005)
9780465015160 | details & prices | 244 pages | 5.25 × 8.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.60 lbs | List price $14.00
About: Another dance of the bull through the china shop of cliches, The Artificial White Man proves the correctness of Tom Wolfe's observation that Stanley Crouch is "the jazz virtuoso of the American essay.