Adrian Younge - The American Negro

Double LP plus booklet

The American Negro is an unapologetic critique, detailing the systemic and malevolent psychology that afflicts people of color. This project dissects the chemistry behind blind racism, using music as the medium to restore dignity and self-worth to my people. It should be evident that any examination of black music is an examination of the relationship between black and white America.

This relationship has shaped the cultural evolution of the world and its negative roots run deep into our psyche. Featuring various special guests performing over a deeply soulful, elaborate orchestration, The American Negro reinvents the black native tongue through this album and it's attendant short film (TAN) and 4-part podcast (invisible Blackness). The American Negro — both as a collective experience and as individual expressions — is insightful, provocative and inspiring and should land at the center of our ongoing reckoning with race, racism and the writing of the next chapter of American history.

1. Revisionist History

2. The American Negro

3. The Black Broadcast

4. Revolutionize

5. Double Consciousness

6. Watch The Children

7. Dying On The Run

8. Intransigence Of The Blind

9. James Mincey Jr.

10. Disadvantaged Without A Title

11. Mama (You Will Make It)

12. The Black Queen

13. Margaret Garner

14. Race Is A Fallacy

15. Light On The Horizon

16. A Symphony For Sahara

17. America Is Listening

18. The March On America

19. Paradox Of The Positive

20. The Death March

21. Black Lives Matter

22. Rotten Roses

23. Jim Crow's Dance

24. Patriotic Portraits

25. George Stinney Jr.

26. Sullen Countenance

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