Is “Listen, Whitey! The Sights and Sounds of Black Power 1965-1975” the coolest book ever published?
Yes, it is. Just out from the stellar Seattle publisher Fantagraphics, “Listen, Whitey!” is a gorgeously designed and smartly written coffee table book by Pat Thomas, a music journalist and A&R man for the music industry. It offers page after page of reproductions of flyers, album covers, advertisements and photographs from the black power era, documenting in fantastic detail the time, starting in the mid-1960s and lasting roughly 10 years, when a lot of black Americans had had enough of the peace and love of Martin Luther King Jr. After 400 years of brutality, they began to feel rage. And when King was killed, that rage exploded.
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