Race and the American story / Stephanie Shonekan and Adam Seagrave.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shonekan, Stephanie, author.

Seagrave, Adam, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black people--Race identity--United States.

Black people.

White people--Race identity--United States.

White people.

African Americans--History.

African Americans.

Racism--United States--History.

Racism.

United States--Race relations--History.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2024.

Summary:

In 'Race and the American Story', Stephanie Shonekan and Adam Seagrave provide a unique window into race relations in contemporary America. Shonekan, a Black woman who grew up in Nigeria and Trinidad before emigrating to the US and Seagrave, a white man who grew up in California's Napa Valley, have entwined their life histories to shed light on how Americans experience race. This book explores the authors' insights into the personal and social effects of racism and contains both an open acknowledgment of the realities of racism and a hopeful approach to confronting it. This book provides a historically sensitive, culturally informed, and refreshingly novel treatment of race in the US. Combining the power of storytelling with the authors' expertise as scholars of politics and culture, this book shows how two very different personal stories relate to the American story.

Contents:

Black, White, Human

Two Experiences, One Nation

Knowledge and Ignorance

The Road to the Future

Freedom and Hope, Liberation and Love.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2024.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on January 4, 2024).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9780197767726

0197767729

9780197767702

0197767702

OCLC:

1416831752