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Charles Mingus Splits, or, All the Things You Could Be by Now If Sigmund Freud’s Wife Was Your Mother

Kevin M. Mcneilly

2019.1.2CANADIAN REVIEW OF AMERICAN STUDIES

DOI: 10.3138/cras.1997.27.2.45

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Jazz musician Charles Mingus critiques racism and privilege through his work, connecting it to Freudian psychoanalytic theory.

Abstract

"Yeah, there are certain things in this life that nobody likes to talkabout. Nobody white, that is." (Mingus [1971] 1991, 323)

Citation format

MCNEILLY, Kevin M. Charles mingus splits, or, all the things you could be by now if sigmund freud’s wife was your mother. CANADIAN REVIEW OF AMERICAN STUDIES, 2019, 27: 45–70.