They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us: Essays

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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- I. -- Chance The Rapper's Golden Year -- A Night In Bruce Springsteen's America -- Carly Rae Jepsen Loves You Back -- The Night Prince Walked On Water -- Schoolboy Q Wants White People To Say The Word -- The Weeknd And The Future Of Loveless Sex -- II. -- I Wasn't Brought Here, I Was Born: Surviving Punk Rock Long Enough To Find Afropunk -- Under Half-Lit Fluorescents: The Wonder Years And The Great Suburban Narrative -- All Our Friends Are Famous -- The Return Of The Loneliest Boys In Town -- Brief Notes On Staying // No One Is Making Their Best Work When They Want To Die -- Searching For A New Kind Of Optimism -- Death Becomes You: My Chemical Romance and Ten Years of The Black Parade -- Defiance, Ohio Is The Name Of A Band -- III. -- Fall Out Boy Forever -- IV. -- Ric Flair, Best Rapper Alive -- It Rained In Ohio On The Night Allen Iverson Hit Michael Jordan With A Crossover -- There Is The Picture Of Michael Jackson Kissing Whitney Houston On The Cheek -- Black Life On Film -- Tell 'Em All To Come And Get Me -- Burning That Which Will Not Save You: Wipe Me Down And The Ballad Of Baton Rouge -- Rumours And The Currency Of Heartbreak -- V. -- February 26, 2012 -- On Kindness -- In The Summer Of 1997, Everyone Took To The Streets In Shiny Suits -- Nina Simone Was Very Black -- Blood Summer, In Three Parts -- August 9, 2014 -- Fear In Two Winters -- On Paris -- My First Police Stop -- Serena Williams And The Policing Of Imagined Arrogance -- They Will Speak Loudest Of You After You've Gone -- Johnny Cash Never Shot A Man In Reno. Or, The Migos: Nice Kids From The Suburbs -- The Obama White House, A Brief Home For Rappers -- The White Rapper Joke -- On Future And Working Through What Hurts -- November 22, 2014 -- Surviving On Small Joys -- VI. -- Acknowledgements -- About the Author.