{"title":"Darius James","description":"Darius James (b. 1954) is a writer and spoken-word performance artist. He is also the author of \u003ci\u003eThat’s Blaxploitation!: Roots of the Baadasssss ’Tude (Rated X by an All-Whyte Jury)\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eVoodoo Stew\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eFroggie Chocolate’s Christmas Eve\u003c\/i\u003e. His writing has appeared in multiple publications, including \u003ci\u003eThe Village Voice\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVibe\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSpin\u003c\/i\u003e, and he is the co-writer and narrator of the 2012 film \u003ci\u003eThe United States of Hoodoo\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Connecticut.","products":[{"product_id":"negrophobia","title":"Negrophobia","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWith a new preface by the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDarius James’s scabrous, unapologetically raunchy, truly hilarious, and deeply scary \u003ci\u003eNegrophobia\u003c\/i\u003e is a wild-eyed reckoning with the mutating insanity of American racism. A screenplay for the mind, a performance on the page, a work of poetry, a mad mix of genres and styles, a novel in the tradition of William S. Burroughs and Ishmael Reed that is like no other novel, \u003ci\u003eNegrophobia\u003c\/i\u003e begins with the blonde bombshell Bubbles Brazil succumbing to a voodoo spell and entering the inner darkness of her own shiny being. Here crackheads parade in the guise of Muppets, Muslims beat conga drums, Negroes have numbers for names, and H. Rap Remus demands the total and instantaneous extermination of the white race through spontaneous combustion. By the end of it all, after going on a weird trip for the ages, Bubbles herself is strangely transformed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":9141740568628,"sku":"9781681373294","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0726\/9203\/products\/james.NEW.jpg?v=1532102917"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.nyrb.com\/collections\/darius-james\/literature-in-english.oembed","provider":"New York Review Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}