Maurice J. Hobson is associate professor of African American studies at Georgia State University.

Provides a necessary counter to the standard narrative of modern Atlanta." -Choice"Provides an intriguing look at a group of people who are typically left out of conversations about Atlanta's past and progress." - ArtsATL"Hobson mines the trove of Atlanta's Black cultural scene to capture, in its essence, the profound sense of disaffection with the city's Black leadership elite expressed in works produced in the 1990s. The book is a timely reminder of what examining the intraracial socioeconomic class divide can reveal for students of African American urban history. Furthermore, the book opens up space for future projects that might address similar themes in other cities, as well as those that embrace the necessary challenge of doing work with an explicitly intersectional frame, which will foreground the ways in which gender and sexuality can serve as analytical frames of equal importance as race and class." - Winston A. Grady-Willis, in Atlanta Studies

Maurice J. Hobson is associate professor of African American studies at Georgia State University.

Provides a necessary counter to the standard narrative of modern Atlanta." -Choice"Provides an intriguing look at a group of people who are typically left out of conversations about Atlanta's past and progress." - ArtsATL"Hobson mines the trove of Atlanta's Black cultural scene to capture, in its essence, the profound sense of disaffection with the city's Black leadership elite expressed in works produced in the 1990s. The book is a timely reminder of what examining the intraracial socioeconomic class divide can reveal for students of African American urban history. Furthermore, the book opens up space for future projects that might address similar themes in other cities, as well as those that embrace the necessary challenge of doing work with an explicitly intersectional frame, which will foreground the ways in which gender and sexuality can serve as analytical frames of equal importance as race and class." - Winston A. Grady-Willis, in Atlanta Studies