Black Culture as Commodity, Pop Culture as Racial Eraser

American Skin: Pop Culture, Big Business, and the End of White America , by Leon E. Wynter. Crown Publishers, 296 pages, $25.

A hundred years after W.E.B. Du Bois proclaimed that “the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line,” Leon Wynter may have come up with a solution: draw it sloppily. Read More