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Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness?
. Touré
What It Means to Be Black Now
Atria
July 2012
On Sale: July 10, 2012
ISBN: 1439177562
EAN: 9781439177563
Kindle: B004IK9C5M
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Non-Fiction
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 provocative new book,
iconic commentator and journalist TourÉ tackles what it
means to be Black in America today. TourÉ 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 Who’s
Afraid of Post-Blackness? he argues that Blackness is
infinite, that any identity imaginable is Black, and that
all expressions of Blackness are legitimate. Here, TourÉ 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 brilliant, eclectic group, and employing
his signature insight, courage, and wit, TourÉ 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, Who’s Afraid of
Post-Blackness? will change how we perceive race forever.
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