MUMBO JUMBO

MUMBO JUMBO

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Book Description
The Classic Freewheeling Look at Race Relations Through the Ages

Mumbo Jumbo is Ishmael Reed's brilliantly satiric deconstruction of Western civilization, a racy and uproarious commentary on our society. In it, Reed, one of our preeminent African-American authors, mixes portraits of historical figures and fictional characters with sound bites on subjects ranging from ragtime to Greek philosophy. Cited by literary critic Harold Bloom as one of the five hundred most significant books in the Western canon, Mumbo Jumbo is a trenchant and often biting look at black-white relations throughout history, from a keen observer of our culture.

About the Author
Ishmael Reed, a novelist, poet, essayist, and activist, is the author of more than a dozen books. He has taught at Harvard, Yale, and Dartmouth and is currently a lecturer at the University of California at Berkeley. He lives in Oakland, California.

MUMBO JUMBO

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Book Updates:

1. Novia Oscura, La
2. One Day of Life (Vintage International)
3. Our Nig : or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black (Vintage)
4. Out of the Night
5. Play It As It Lays : A Novel
6. Pop-Up
7. Rabbit Angstrom : The Four Novels : Rabbit, Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit Is Rich, Rabbit at Rest (Everyman's Library)
8. Ragman - reissue : And Other Cries of Faith (Wangerin, Walter)
9. Resistance, Rebellion, and Death : Essays (Vintage International)
10. Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar

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