The matter of Black lives : writing from The New Yorker / edited by Jelani Cobb and David Remnick.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cobb, Jelani, editor, writer of foreword.

Remnick, David, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Racism--United States.

Racism.

United States.

African Americans--History.

African Americans.

History.

African Americans--Social conditions.

African Americans--Politics and government.

Race relations.

United States--Race relations.

Genre:

Essays.

History.

Physical Description:

xvi, 828 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Black lives

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021]

Summary:

Bringing together reporting, profiles, memoir and criticism from The New Yorker to present a bold and complex portrait of black life in America, told through stories of private triumphs and national tragedies, political vision, and artistic inspiration throughout history.

"A collection of The New Yorker's groundbreaking writing on race in America-including work by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Hilton Als, Zadie Smith, and more-with a foreword by Jelani Cobb. This anthology from the pages of the New Yorker provides a bold and complex portrait of Black life in America, told through stories of private triumphs and national tragedies, political vision and artistic inspiration. It reaches back across a century, with Rebecca West's classic account of a 1947 lynching trial and James Baldwin's “Letter from a Region in My Mind” (which later formed the basis of The Fire Next Time), and yet it also explores our current moment, from the classroom to the prison cell and the upheavals of what Jelani Cobb calls “the American Spring.” Bringing together reporting, profiles, memoir, and criticism from writers such as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Elizabeth Alexander, Hilton Als, Vinson Cunningham, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Malcolm Gladwell, Jamaica Kincaid, Kelefa Sanneh, Doreen St. Félix, and others, the collection offers startling insights about this country's relationship with race. The Matter of Black Lives reveals the weight of a singular history, and challenges us to envision the future anew. " -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Reflections

Personal histories

The political scene

Life and letters

Onward and upward with the arts

Annals of the law

The uprising and after.

Contains:

Baldwin, James, 1924-1987. Letter from a region in my mind.

Morrison, Toni. Color fetish.

Gladwell, Malcolm, 1963- Black like them.

Cobb, Jelani. Barack X.

Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, 1977- Now is the time to talk about what we are actually talking about.

Sanneh, Kelefa. Color of injustice.

Lee, Andrea, 1953- Quilts.

Kincaid, Jamaica. Putting myself together.

Allen, Danielle S., 1971- American inferno.

Broom, Sarah M. Yellow house.

ISBN:

9780063017597

0063017598

OCLC:

1268549630

Publisher Number:

99988585676