Who we be : the colorization of America / Jeff Chang.
Chang, Jeff.
2014
E184.A1 C4425 2014 (Mapit)
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Title Who we be : the colorization of America / Jeff Chang.
Author Chang, Jeff.
Edition First edition.
ISBN 9780312571290 hardcover
0312571291 hardcover
Published New York : St. Martin's Press, 2014.
Language English
Description xii, 403 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Call Number E184.A1 C4425 2014
Dewey Decimal Classification 305.800973
Summary "Race. A four-letter word. The greatest social divide in American life, a half-century ago and today. During that time, the U.S. has seen the most dramatic demographic and cultural shifts 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 half-century? After eras framed by words like 'multicultural' and 'post-racial,' do we see each other any more clearly? 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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Seeing America
Part 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.

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