The New Black What Has Changed--And What Has Not--with Race in America |
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| Editor:
| Mack, Kenneth W.
Charles, Guy-Uriel |
| ISBN: | 978-1-59558-677-3 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2013 |
| Publisher: | New Press, The
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $21.95 |
Book Description:
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The election and reelection of Barack Obama ushered in a litany of controversial perspectives about the contemporary state of American race relations. In this incisive volume, some of the country’s most celebrated and original thinkers on race—historians, sociologists, writers, scholars, and well–known cultural critics—reexamine the familiar framework of the civil rights movement with an eye to overhauling dramatically our understanding of the politics of...
More DescriptionThe election and reelection of Barack Obama ushered in a litany of controversial perspectives about the contemporary state of American race relations. In this incisive volume, some of the country’s most celebrated and original thinkers on race—historians, sociologists, writers, scholars, and well–known cultural critics—reexamine the familiar framework of the civil rights movement with an eye to overhauling dramatically our understanding of the politics of race.
Through provocative and insightful essays, The New Black challenges contemporary images of black families, offers a contentious critique of the relevance of presidential politics, defies accepted notions of what "black” means individually and collectively, transforms ideas about the real and perceived political power of people of color, and generally attempts to define the new boundaries of debates over race in America.
Bringing a wealth of novel ideas and fresh perspectives to the public discourse, The New Black represents a major effort to address both persistent inequalities and the changing landscape of race in the new century.