Searing look at Condoleezza Rice
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NEW YORK (BlackNews.com)-Up until now one of the most powerful black women in America has remained outside serious critical consideration by the media or in public discussion. This month, a new anthology remedies the situation.
"Dr. Rice in the House" (Seven Stories Press, June 28, 2007), edited by Amy Scholder, addresses Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice with rage, humor and scathing analysis from bestselling writers and highly acclaimed visual artists including Amiri Baraka, Coco Fusco, Faith Ringgold, Sapphire, Kara Walker, Jill Nelson, hattie gossett, Paul Robeson Jr. and Wanda Coleman.
The collection has been called "essential reading for Condi watchers" by Essence Magazine. Whether it is Jill Nelson's critique of Rice's ahistorical experience of her own success as an African American woman, Baraka's poetic search for who "blew up America," or Sapphire's hilarious scene in which Rice instructs President Bush on how to pronounce the word nuclear, "Dr. Rice in the House" is a highly critical but appropriately nuanced portrait of the political force and cultural phenomenon that is Condoleezza Rice.
"Dr. Rice In the House," Amy Scholder, ed. Current Affairs /African-American Studies June 28, 2007 | Paperback Original 5- 1/2 x 7-1/2 inches | 128 pages | $13.95 | 6 pages in full color 13/ISBN
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