Ep. 34 - Bowen + Twyman, Ep. 3

Episode 3 of our new series featuring FBT co-founder Michael David Cobb Bowen and author Winkfield Twyman Jr. Mike and Wink compare their respective imagined roles as King(s) of (black) History Month. "Mirrors on the ceilingThe pink champagne on iceAnd she said, "We are all just prisoners hereOf our own device"And in the master's chambersThey gathered for the feastThey stab it with their steely knivesBut they just can't kill the beast."     ---- Hotel California lyrics by the Eagles (released February 22, 1977)References and Resources:White Bucks and Black-Eyed Peas: Coming Of Age Black In White America by Marcus MaybryThe Rage of a Privileged Class: Why Are Middle-Class Blacks Angry? Why Should America Care? by Ellis CoseCivility by Stephen L. CarterLure and Loathing: Essays on Race, Identity, and the Ambivalence of Assimilation edited by Gerald EarlyBlues People: Negro Music in White America by LeRoi JonesCane (Kabnis) by Jean ToomerThe American Evasion of Philosophy: A Genealogy of Pragmatism by Cornel WestOxherding Tale by Charles R. JohnsonHigh Cotton by Darryl PinckneyDuties, Pleasures, and Conflicts: Essays in Struggle by Michael ThelwellThe White Boy Shuffle by Paul BeattyCaptain Blackman by John A. WilliamsJazz by Toni MorrisonHeavy Daughter Blues: Poems and Stories 1968-1986 by Wanda ColemanUnderstand This by Jervey TervalonNotes of a Hanging Judge: Essays and Reviews, 1979-1989 by Stanley CrouchFlyboy in the Buttermilk: Essays on Contemporary America by Greg TateWink’s “Black Enterprise Magazine, Or, How I Became Black”Wink’s “Reparations No. 30”Wink’s “No Caricatures and Stereotypes Allowed”