ISBN:
9780312571290
Language:
English
Pages:
xii, 403 Seiten
,
Illustrationen (teilweise farbig)
,
24 cm
Edition:
First edition
DDC:
305.800973
Keywords:
Social change
;
Cultural pluralism
;
Multiculturalism
;
Post-racialism
;
Minorities
;
United States Population
;
United States Race relations
;
USA
;
Multikulturelle Gesellschaft
;
Ethnische Beziehungen
;
Pluralistische Gesellschaft
;
Sozialer Wandel
Abstract:
"Race. A four-letter word. The greatest social divide in American life, a half-century ago and today. During that time, the United States has seen the most dramatic demographic and cultural shift in its history, what can be called the colorization of America. But the same nation that elected its first Black president on a wave of hope--another four-letter word--is still plunged into endless culture wars. How do Americans see race now? How has that changed--and not changed--over the past half-century? After eras framed by words like 'multicultural' and 'post-racial,' do we see each other any more clearly? From the dream of integration to the reality of colorization, Who We Be remixes comic strips and contemporary art, campus protests and corporate marketing campaigns, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Trayvon Martin, into a powerful, unusual, and timely cultural history of the idea of racial progress. In this follow-up to the award-winning classic Can't Stop Won't Stop : A History of the Hip-Hop Generation, Jeff Chang brings fresh energy, style, and sweep to the essential American story"--
Description / Table of Contents:
Seeing AmericaPart One: A New Culture, 1963-1979 -- Chapter 1. Rainbow Power : Morrie Turner and the Kids -- Chapter 2. After Jericho : The Struggle Against Invisibility -- Chapter 3. "The Real Thing" : Lifestyling and Its Discontents -- Chapter 4. Every Man an Artist, Every Artist a Priest : The Invention of Multiculturalism -- Chapter 5. Color Theory : Race Trouble in the Avant-Garde -- Part Two: Who Are We? 1980-1993 -- Chapter 6. The End of the World As We Know It : Whiteness, the Rainbow, and the Culture Wars -- Chapter 7. Unity and Reconciliation : The Era of Identity -- Chapter 8. Imagine/Ever Wanting/to Be : The Fall of Multiculturalism -- Chapter 9. All the Colors in the World : The Mainstreaming of Multiculturalism -- Chapter 10. We Are All Multiculturalists Now : Visions of One America -- Part Three: The Colorization of America, 1993-2013 -- Chapter 11. Post Time : Identity in the New Millennium -- Chapter 12 Demographobia : Racial Fears and Colorized Futures -- Chapter 13. The Wave : The Hope of a New Cultural Majority -- Chapter 14. Dis/Union : The Paradox of the Post-Racial Moment -- Chapter 15. Who We Be : Debt, Community, and Colorization -- Dreaming America.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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