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On the one hand, he was a highly regarded Grammy-nominated singer-actor in the United States and abroad; a faculty member at a major university; a respected composer-pianist in a prestigious musical ensemble and had...‘grown up in a white world’...on the other hand, he was constantly at risk for being demeaned as a black man or (as his brother termed it—the ‘double whammy’) as a gay black man.
— May 21, 2026 11:45AM
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Another reading of the work may be as a manifestation of racial anger—Eastman’s comment on the status of blacks or gays in society. Similarly, seizure of the words ‘nigger’ and ‘faggot’ in the titles for his compositions, is an extension of this device—detoxification through insistent confrontation.
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