Greg Tate and Guthrie Ramsey Book Talk & Signing

On Saturday, March 18, cultural critical Greg Tate will join professor Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr. to discuss his recent book, Flyboy 2: The Greg Tate Reader. A signing and reception will take place promptly after the conversation at 1PM. Books will be available for sale courtesy of Penn Book Center.

Since launching his career at the Village Voice in the early 1980s, Greg Tate has been one of the premiere critical voices on contemporary Black music, art, literature, film, and politics. Flyboy 2 provides a panoramic view of the past thirty years of Tate's influential work. Whether interviewing Miles Davis or Ice Cube, reviewing an Azealia Banks mixtape or Suzan-Lori Parks's Topdog/Underdog, discussing visual artist Kara Walker or writer Clarence Major, or analyzing the ties between Afro-futurism, Black feminism, and social movements, Tate's resounding critical insights illustrate how race, gender, and class become manifest in American popular culture. Above all, Tate demonstrates through his signature mix of vernacular poetics and cultural theory and criticism why visionary Black artists, intellectuals, aesthetics, philosophies, and politics matter to twenty-first-century America.

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