ISBN:
9780231169349
Language:
English
Pages:
viii, 277 Seiten
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1 Illustration
DDC:
305.800973
Keywords:
African Americans Race identity
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African Americans Intellectual life
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African Americans Social conditions 1975-
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Social change
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Identity politics
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Post-racialism
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African American philosophy
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United States Race relations
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
"Post-Blackness salutes Black individuals and their achievements while rejecting affiliation with any larger Black community. It disavows allegiance to Black intellectual and cultural traditions. Its stance depends on the premise that the current racial order has broken with the past. This collection of commissioned essays begins a long overdue discussion about changes in the racial order in the age of Obama. It interrogates and challenges the emergence of post-Black ideology from a variety of perspectives. It examines how we pay attention to the ways in which Blackness has been patterned and imagined in America. Making use of a wide scope of topics that rally around central questions introduced by the notion of post-Blackness, the volume gives general readers and students an introduction to what it means to be 'Black' in the twenty-first century"--Provided by publisher
Abstract:
"Post-Blackness salutes Black individuals and their achievements while rejecting affiliation with any larger Black community. It disavows allegiance to Black intellectual and cultural traditions. Its stance depends on the premise that the current racial order has broken with the past. This collection of commissioned essays begins a long overdue discussion about changes in the racial order in the age of Obama. It interrogates and challenges the emergence of post-Black ideology from a variety of perspectives. It examines how we pay attention to the ways in which Blackness has been patterned and imagined in America. Making use of a wide scope of topics that rally around central questions introduced by the notion of post-Blackness, the volume gives general readers and students an introduction to what it means to be 'Black' in the twenty-first century"--Provided by publisher
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Introduction: The Dubious Stage of Post-Blackness-Performing Otherness, Conserving Dominance
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2. Black Literary Writers and Post-Blackness
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3. Untitled, or, the Post-Blackness of Post-Blackness
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4. African Diasporic Blackness Out of Line : Trouble for "Post-BLK" African-Americanism
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5. Fear of a Performative Planet : Troubling the Concept of "Post-Blackness"
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6. E-Raced : #Toure, Twitter, and Trayvon
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7. Post-Blackness and All of the Black Americas
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8. Embodying Africa : Root-Seekers and the Politics of Blackness
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9. "The World is a Ghetto" : Postracial America(s) and the Apocalypse
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10. The Long Road Home
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11. Half as Good
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12. "Whither Now and Why" : Content Mastery and Pedagogy : a Critique and a Challenge
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13. Fallacies of the Post Race Presidency
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14. Thirteen Ways of Looking at Post-Blackness (after Wallace Stevens)
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Conclusion: Why the Lega Mask Has Many Mouths and Multiple Eyes
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