Daphne A. Brooks

Daphne A. Brooks, a professor of English and African-American studies at Princeton University, is the author of Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances of Race and Freedom, 1850-1910 (Duke) and Jeff Buckley’s Grace (Continuum).

Race and EthnicityFebruary 14, 2012

I’m Every Woman: Whitney Houston, the Voice of the Post–Civil Rights Era

Dismissed as inauthentic and overlooked by rock critics, Houston inspired a rainbow connection of Gen X and Y singers to belt across the colorline.

Daphne A. Brooks
Arts and EntertainmentSeptember 10, 2008

Amy Winehouse and the (Black) Art of Appropriation

Just about the only thing Amy Winehouse hasn’t repackaged from the black music archives is the one thing she could use: a lesson in Motown etiquette.

Daphne A. Brooks
MusicNovember 30, 2006

Suga Mama, Politicized

Beyoncé Knowles’s sexed-up club jam B’Day is also an odd, urgent, dissonant and disruptive personal and political statement.

Daphne A. Brooks

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Daphne A. Brooks

Race and EthnicityFebruary 14, 2012

Dismissed as inauthentic and overlooked by rock critics, Houston inspired a rainbow connection of Gen X and Y singers to belt across the colorline.

Arts and EntertainmentSeptember 10, 2008

Just about the only thing Amy Winehouse hasn’t repackaged from the black music archives is the one thing she could use: a lesson in Motown etiquette.

MusicNovember 30, 2006

Beyoncé Knowles’s sexed-up club jam B’Day is also an odd, urgent, dissonant and disruptive personal and political statement.