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Online-Ressource (289 p)
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9780231169349
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An America in which the color of one's skin no longer matters would be unprecedented. With the election of President Barack Obama, that future suddenly seemed possible. Obama's rise reflects a nation of fluid populations and fortunes, a society in which a biracial individual could be embraced as a leader by all.Yet complicating this vision are the shifting demographics, rapid redefinitions of race, and instant invention of brands, trends, and identities that determine how we think about ourselves and the place of others. This collection of original essays confronts the premise, advanced by bl
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Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Dubious Stage of Post-Blackness-Performing Otherness, Conserving Dominance, by K. Merinda Simmons; 1. What Was Is: The Time and Space of Entanglement Erased by Post-Blackness, by Margo Natalie Crawford; 2. Black Literary Writers and Post-Blackness, by Stephanie Li; 3. African Diasporic Blackness Out of Line: Trouble for "Post-Black" Americanism, by Greg Thomas; 4. Fear of a Performative Planet: Troubling the Concept of "Post-Blackness", by Rone Shavers; 5. E-Raced: #Touré, Twitter, and Trayvon, by Riché Richardson
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6. Post-Blackness and All of the Black Americas, by Heather D. Russell7. Embodying Africa: Roots-Seekers and the Politics of Blackness, by Bayo Holsey; 8. "The world is a ghetto": Post-Racial America(s) and the Apocalypse, by Patrice Rankine; 9. The Long Road Home, by Erin Aubry Kaplan; 10. Half as Good, by John L. Jackson Jr.; 11. "Whither Now and Why": Content Mastery and Pedagogy-a Critique and a Challenge, by Dana A. Williams; 12. Fallacies of the Post-Race Presidency, by Ishmael Reed; 13. Thirteen Ways of Looking at Post-Blackness (after Wallace Stevens), by Emily Raboteau
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Conclusion: Why the Lega Mask Has Many Mouths and Multiple Eyes, by Houston A. Baker Jr.List of Contributors; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780231538503
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780231169349
Additional Edition:
Print version The Trouble with Post-Blackness
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English
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