ISBN:
9780814348314
,
0814348319
,
9780814345146
,
081434514X
Language:
English
Pages:
xiv, 178 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
,
21 cm
DDC:
305.896/073
Keywords:
Schwarze
;
Diskriminierung
;
Soziale Situation
;
Sklaverei
;
Erbe
;
USA
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
This book is a plea to America to understand what life post-slavery remains like for many African Americans, who are descended from people whose unpaid labor built this land, but have had to spend the last century and a half carrying the dual burden of fighting racial injustice and rising above the lowered expectations and hateful bigotry that attempt to keep them shackled to that past
Note:
Foreword / Nikole Hannah-Jones -- Introduction -- The burden / Rochelle Riley -- The armor we still need / A'Lelia Bundles -- A military family, descended from slaves / Benét J. Wilson -- Remnants of survival: black women and legacies of defiance / Charlene A. Carruthers -- Quiet defiance / Aku Kadogo -- Living without a beginning / Patrice Gaines -- Forged by fire / Tim Reid -- Eternal bondage / Leonard Pitts Jr. -- Sports industries as plantations / Kevin B. Blackistone -- What slavery means to me / Betty DeRamus -- If America had believed that black girls were girls / Tamara Winfrey-Harris -- Kalief Browder: a life marked for death / Vann R. Newkirk II -- An abomination, but you got fed / Julianne Malveaux -- Object lessons: re-encountering slavery through Rose's gift / Mark Auslander -- Chasing my past on a different map / Paula Williams Madison -- Our internal war: embracing a greatness that should be normal / Aisha Hinds -- The footprint of America's racial struggle in Cuba / DeWayne Wickham -- Lemonade: the duality of a black woman's devotion in the shadow of slave culture / Tonya M. Matthews -- It's not just hair / T'Keyah Crystal Keymáh -- The weapon of narrative and the African American story / Michael Simanga -- Our new civil rights movement will begin in our schools / Torrance G. Latham -- The black press -- more needed than ever / Herb Boyd -- Big Mama's money: a lasting lesson from bondage: don't be a slave to debt / Michelle Singletary -- Catching hands: African Americans and everyday rebellions / Carolyn Edgar -- Notes -- Author biographies
