Mark Anthony Neal

Critical Noir: Confessions of a ThugNiggaIntellectual
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Critical Noir: Confessions of a ThugNiggaIntellectual

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 / 13 February 2020

If you need to know what the boundaries of diction are, listen to my reformed ghetto-ass.

D’Angelo’s Anti-Producer Project, ‘Voodoo’
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D’Angelo’s Anti-Producer Project, ‘Voodoo’

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 / 25 January 2020

D'Angelo's Voodoo may well be the working blueprint for "post-Soul" black pop, but are pop fans ready to embrace more than the same five melodies and the same five bass-lines?

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Teddy Pendergrass: Life Was a Song Worth Singing

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 / 21 January 2010
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The Demise of Vibe Magazine and the Future of Criticism

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 / 23 July 2009
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Should Black Radio Die?

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 / 19 May 2009
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Carrying the Water: On Michael Eric Dyson

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 / 22 July 2007
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The Last Soul Brother: James Brown (1933-2006)

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 / 1 January 2007
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(White) Male Privilege, Black Respectability, and Black Women’s Bodies

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 / 14 April 2006
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Kanye Walks

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 / 2 February 2006
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Gritty Soul Men: Remembering Lou Rawls and Wilson Pickett

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 / 27 January 2006
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A Nigger Un-Reconstructed: The Legacy of Richard Pryor

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 / 15 December 2005
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R&B Conversations: Rahsaan Patterson’s Slow Burn

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 / 25 August 2005