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Fletcher University Professor Henry L. Gates, Jr., the director of the institute, said Murray is “vital and central to our intellectual and artistic tradition.”
“This is a man who made the claim—galling to some and glorious to others—that ‘American’ means ‘black’ and not ‘white,’ as was, and still is...
“Mr. Murray is one of the great cultural critics of his generation in the U.S.,” Gates said in an interview. “His books have defined the relationship between African American and American culture for the past 50 years.”
Murray has spent most of his life in New York where, according to Gates, “he has presided over black cultural life for several decades.”
My discovery of competitive air guitar, a deliciously addictive niche of pop culture, came unexpectedly at the 2006 South by Southwest Film festival in Austin, Texas. It was there that I stumbled across a film proclaiming to be the “Official Story of America’s Unofficial...