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Who's afraid of post-blackness? : what it means to be Black now / Touré ; foreword by Michael Eric Dyson.

by Touré, 1971-

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New York : Free Press, 2011.

African Americans -- Race identity.

African Americans -- Psychology.

United States -- Race relations.

1439177554 (hardcover : alk. paper)

9781439177556 (hardcover : alk. paper) :

1439177562 (pbk. : alk. paper)

9781439177563 (pbk. : alk. paper)

xviii, 251 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

1st Free Press hardcover ed.

Tour(é)ing blackness / by Michael Eric Dyson -- Forty million ways to be Black -- Keep it real is a prison -- The rise and fall of a post-Black king -- "Shut up, Toure! You ain't Black!" -- Most racist thing that ever happened-- -- The blacker the berry the sweeter the juice, but nobody wants diabetes -- How to build more Baracks -- We are quintessential Americans.

In the age of Obama, racial attitudes have become more complicated and nuanced than ever before. Inspired by a president who is unlike any Black man ever seen on our national stage, we are searching for new ways of understanding Blackness. In this book, the author, a commentator and journalist tackles what it means to be Black in America today. He begins by examining the concept of "Post-Blackness," a term that defines artists who are proud to be Black but don't want to be limited by identity politics and boxed in by race. He soon discovers that the desire to be rooted in but not constrained by Blackness is everywhere. In this book he argues that Blackness is infinite, that any identity imaginable is Black, and that all expressions of Blackness are legitimate. Here, he divulges intimate, funny, and painful stories of how race and racial expectations have shaped his life and explores how the concept of Post-Blackness functions in politics, society, psychology, art, culture, and more. He knew he could not tackle this topic all on his own so he turned to 105 of the most important luminaries of our time for frank and thought-provoking opinions, including the Reverend Jesse Jackson, Cornel West, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Malcolm Gladwell, Michael Eric Dyson, Melissa Harris-Perry, Harold Ford Jr., Kara Walker, Kehinde Wiley, Glenn Ligon, Paul Mooney, New York Governor David Paterson, Greg Tate, Aaron McGruder, Soledad O'Brien, Kamala Harris, Chuck D, Mumia Abu-Jamal, and many others. By engaging this eclectic group, and employing his insight, courage, and wit, the author delivers a clarion call on race in America and how we can change our perceptions for a better future. Destroying the notion that there is a correct way of being Black, this book changes how we perceive race.

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