Greg Tate's books include Fly Boy in the Buttermilk; Everything But the Burden: What White People Are Taking From Black Culture; and Midnight Lightning: Jimi Hendrix and the Black Experience. He is also the leader of the band Burnt Sugar.
Four new books explore the politics, culture and racial awareness of the hip-hop generation.
The Jack Johnson story is about many things, but none more emphatically than the meaning of manhood to the Anglo-Saxon imagination at the turn of the century.


