The new Black : what has changed and what has not with race in America / edited by Kenneth W. Mack and Guy-Uriel Charles.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mack, Kenneth Walter, 1964-

Charles, Guy-Uriel E., 1970-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civil rights movements.

History.

United States--Race relations.

United States.

Race relations.

Civil rights movements--United States--History.

African Americans--Civil rights.

African Americans.

African Americans--Politics and government.

Physical Description:

xiii, 238 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : The New Press, 2013.

Summary:

The election and reelection of Barack Obama ushered in a litany of controversial perspectives about the contemporary state of American race relations. In this volume, some of the country's most celebrated and original thinkers on race, historians, sociologists, writers, scholars, and cultural critics, reexamine the familiar framework of the civil rights movement with an eye to redirecting our understanding of the politics of race. Through provocative and insightful essays, this work challenges contemporary images of black families, offers a contentious critique of the relevance of presidential politics, transforms ideas about real and perceived political power, defies commonly accepted notions of "blackness," and generally attempts to sketch the new boundaries of debates over race in America. Bringing a wealth of novel ideas and fresh perspectives to the public discourse, it represents a major effort to address both persistent inequalities and the changing landscape of race in the new century.

Contents:

Preface

Introduction

The new Black and the death of the civil rights ideal / Kenneth W. Mack & Guy-Uriel Charles

Political race and the new Black / Lani Guinier & Gerald Torres

Déjà vu all over again? : racial contestation in the Obama era / Taeku Lee

Immigration and the civil rights agenda / Cristina M. Rodrøguez

The president and the justice : two ways of looking at a post-Black man / Paul Butler

The racial metamorphosis of justice Kennedy and the future of civil rights law / Luis Fuentes-Rohwer

The right kind of family : silences in a civil rights narrative / Jonathan Scott Holloway

John Hope Franklin : the man and his works / Orlando Patterson

The puzzles of racial extremism in a "post-racial" world / Jeannine Bell

An officer and a gentleman / Angela Onwuachi-Willig

Obama is no king : the fracturing of the Black prophetic tradition / Glenn C. Loury

Free Black men / Elizabeth Alexander

Acknowledgments

Contributors

Notes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781595586773

1595586776

OCLC:

701019532