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Reading African American experiences in the Obama era : theory, advocacy, activism / edited by Ebony Elizabeth Thomas & Shanesha R.F. Brooks-Tatum.
Van Pelt Library E185.86 .R368 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Black studies & critical thinking ; v. 8.
- Black studies & critical thinking
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Obama, Barack.
- African Americans--Social conditions--21st century.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Race identity--Political aspects.
- Obama, Barack--Influence.
- Racism--United States.
- Racism.
- Post-racialism.
- African Americans--Race identity.
- African Americans--Social conditions.
- United States.
- Post-racialism--United States.
- United States--Race relations.
- Race relations.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 276 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Peter Lang, [2012]
- Summary:
- This collection of 13 essays grapples with what it means to do scholarly, critical, and activist work in a purportedly postracial era. They stress the personal experiences of authors, students, and community-activists, as well as the need for new foci in Black studies. To that end, there's an afterward about "black scholarship for black folk." The book is organized into five sections on prophetic words and new narratives; 21st century literacy and African-American youth; pedagogical approaches to race, culture, and faith in schools and communities; artistic and political narratives in Black American cultures; and cross-generational dialogues about the prison-industrial complex, family structure, and public health. The contributors include an array of professors of English, journalism, cultural studies, sociology; literary and musical artists; and nurses. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Contents:
- The (new?) "rap on race" : historicizing calls for racial dialogue in the early years of Barack Obama's presidency / Shawn Anthony Christian
- The next chapter of our story : rethinking African American metanarratives in schooling and society / Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
- Double consciousness : the context and consequences of black racial identity in the Obama era / Kafi Damali Kumasi
- Schools of hope : teaching literacy in the Obama era / Jane Bean-Folkes
- Where do we go from
- where? : identifying the ideological bases of low-income, urban black adolescents' views on racism / Alfred W. DeFreece, Jr
- Transformative educational spaces : black youth and education in the 21st century / Shanesha R.F. Brooks-Tatum
- The Obama effect : using a culturally relevant pedagogy at a historically African American university / Karen Keaton Jackson
- "The evidence of things not seen" : faith and persuasion in the Obama era / Zandra L. Jordan
- Hip-hop's president : the genre, his genius, our generation / Jamal R. Burke
- "As if the walls could speak" : imagining postmemories of U.S. slavery in the age of Obama / Khaliah Mangrum
- African Americans and the U.S. prison-industrial complex / Gregory L. Caldwell, Keisha L. Green
- Taking the pulse of our communities : the state of black public health in the Obama era / Nutrena Watts Tate, Jonnie Perryman Hamilton
- Black love as activism : restoring our families and communities / Gloria B. Mills, Marcelle M. Haddix
- Afterword / Zeus Leonardo.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 143311125X
- 9781433111280
- 1433111284
- 9781433111259
- 9781453902103
- 1453902104
- OCLC:
- 755904548
- Publisher Number:
- 99947756442
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