Who's afraid of post-blackness? : what it means to be Black now / Touré ; foreword by Michael Eric Dyson.

Who's afraid of post-blackness? : what it means to be Black now / Touré ; foreword by Michael Eric Dyson.

First Free Press trade paperback edition.

9781439177563 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1439177562 (pbk. : alk. paper)

New York : Free Press, 2012.

English

xx, 260 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

E185.625 .T68 2012

305.896/073

In the age of Obama, racial attitudes have become more complicated and nuanced than ever before. Inspired by a president who is unlike any Black man ever seen on our national stage, we are searching for new ways of understanding Blackness. In this book, the author, a commentator and journalist tackles what it means to be Black in America today. He begins by examining the concept of "Post-Blackness," a term that defines artists who are proud to be Black but don't want to be limited by identity politics and boxed in by race. He soon discovers that the desire to be rooted in but not constrained by Blackness is everywhere. In this book he argues that Blackness is infinite, that any identity imaginable is Black, and that all expressions of Blackness are legitimate. -- From the publsher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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