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“Negrophobia”: A Novel by Darius James

Published in 1992, “Negrophobia” was a wild romp through a racially charged dreamscape.

This is The Blacklist, a monthly column by Michael Gonzales exploring out-of-print books by African-American authors.

Thinking back to those childhood days in the late ’60s and early ’70s, I was often in the living room propped in front of our oversized black-and-white television set. Many film and television images that would be deemed as offensive today were still a part of our everyday world in post-civil rights America. While Martin Luther King might’ve gotten us a literal seat on the bus and at Woolworth’s lunch counter, that didn’t stop American icons Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben from staring at us from supermarket shelves, or the occasional Warner Bros. cartoon that featured kooky Africans, a hell-dwelling Sambo meeting with Satan on a Sunday morning, and jitterbugging darkies dancing through the streets of Harlem. With titles that included “Uncle Tom’s Bungalow” (1937), “Jungle Jitters” (1938) and “Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs” (1943), these shorts were shown before the feature films.

Cartoon Research

Bamboozled,Bronx Biannual,

Village VoiceThe Politicization Of Jay-Z,

Negrophobia,

Negrophobia

NegrophobiaThe System of Dante’s Hell

Negrophobia

National LampoonSaturday Night Live

Biker Heaven,Easy Rider

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Los Angeles TimesNegrophobia

NegrophobiaKathy Goes to HaitiBloodand Guts in High School

BlackLike Basquiat: Jean-Michel Basquiat and the Black Kids in Downtown NYC

The Asses TaleGroove, Bang, and Jive Around

Between C & D,

NegrophobiaNew YorkerThat’s Blaxploitation!: Roots of the Baadasssss ’Tude (Rated X by an All-Whyte Jury)

Negrophobia,The Sellout

Negrophobia Hokum: An Anthology of African-American Humor. The New York Times

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Negrophobia,The Last American Nigger,Negrophobia

NegrophobiaEgo TripKoontown Killing KaperBetween C & D.

Negrophobia CoonskinAcid Fairies.

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