Who's afraid of post-blackness? : what it means to be Black now / Touré ; foreword by Michael Eric Dyson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Touré, 1971-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Race identity.

African Americans.

United States--Race relations.

United States.

Race relations.

African Americans--Psychology.

Physical Description:

xviii, 251 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First Free Press hardcover edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Free Press, 2011.

Summary:

In the age of Obama, racial attitudes have become more complicated and nuanced than ever before. Inspired by a president who is unlike any Black man ever seen on our national stage, we are searching for new ways of understanding Blackness. In this book, the author, a commentator and journalist tackles what it means to be Black in America today. He begins by examining the concept of "Post-Blackness," a term that defines artists who are proud to be Black but don't want to be limited by identity politics and boxed in by race. He soon discovers that the desire to be rooted in but not constrained by Blackness is everywhere. In this book he argues that Blackness is infinite, that any identity imaginable is Black, and that all expressions of Blackness are legitimate. -- From the publsher.

Contents:

Tour(é)ing Blackness / Michael Eric Dyson

Forty million ways to be Black

Keep it real is a prison

The rise and fall of a post-Black king

"Shut up, Touré! You ain't Black!"

The most racist thing that ever happened ...

The blacker the berry the sweeter the juice, but nobody wants diabetes

How to build more Baracks

We are quintessential Americans

Outtakes

Bios.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

American Book Awards, Winner, 2012

ISBN:

9781439177556

1439177554

9781439177570

1439177570

9781439177563

1439177562

OCLC:

671238322