American Blackness : navigating the myth of the Black monolith / Bernard Grenway.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grenway, Bernard, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Biography.

African Americans.

African Americans--Social conditions--1975-.

African Americans--Social conditions.

Race relations.

Grenway, Bernard.

United States--Race relations--Anecdotes.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Anecdotes.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

vi, 127 pages ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Navigating the myth of the Black monolith

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Hamilton Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2021]

Summary:

"This book uses theoretical applications and social narratives to push back against ideals associated with of the black monolith by examining the many ways in which black Americans struggle to cope with educational, cultural, and socio-economical expectations"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Little Black Boy, Big White Suburbia

2. Six Black Boys in a Room

3. Out-Black Me: The Unwinnable Game of Black Male Success

4. You Love Who You Love, Race Notwithstanding

5. The Truth about Blackness: Navigating Free Black Will

6. Ink Black and Rail Thin

7. Dubois Talks about That Twoness

8. Lessons of a Mixed-Race Family: You Can't Have It Both Ways

9. For Those Who Overlook What Really Happened

10. Racial Reality Intelligence: The Truth Will Set America Free

11. That Ceremonial Covering That is Me

12. Afroprovidential Redirection: That Force That Steps into the Gap

13. An Early Discernment: Racial Categorization

14. Transformation: A Discussion of Displaced Adulation

15. Black the Way I Want to Be

16. The Learning of Racial Mythologies and the DNA Conundrum: Are You Sure You're White?

17. The Employee Paradox: Respecting the Psychology of Black Workmanship

18. The Ascension of Desires Continuum: What Maslow Forgot to Tell You about Black Working People

19. America's Dissociation Identity Disorder: Fearing the Blackness of Obama Part I

20. America's Dissociation Identity Disorder: Fearing the Blackness of Obama Part II: Trapped in the Throes of White Narcissism

21. A Morning on Poplar Grove

22. My Visceral Heartbeat: The Hip-Hop Side of Me.

Notes:

Includes index.

Other Format:

Online version: Grenway, Bernard. American Blackness

ISBN:

9780761872559

0761872558

OCLC:

1236091939

Publisher Number:

99988991600