The trouble with post-Blackness / / edited by Houston A. Baker Jr. and K. Merinda Simmons.

"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 coll...

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Place / Publishing House:New York : : Columbia University Press,, [2015]
2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (289 pages) :; illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The Dubious Stage of Post-Blackness-Performing Otherness, Conserving Dominance / K. Merinda Simmons
  • 1. "What Was Is" : The Time and Space of Entanglement Erased by Post-Blackness / Margo Natalie Crawford
  • 2. Black Literary Writers and Post-Blackness / Stephanie Li
  • 3. Untitled, or, the Post-Blackness of Post-Blackness / Brenda Marie Osbey
  • 4. African Diasporic Blackness Out of Line : Trouble for "Post-BLK" African-Americanism / Greg Thomas
  • 5. Fear of a Performative Planet : Troubling the Concept of "Post-Blackness" / Rone Shavers
  • 6. E-Raced : #Toure, Twitter, and Trayvon / Riche Richardson
  • 7. Post-Blackness and All of the Black Americas / Heather D. Russell
  • 8. Embodying Africa : Root-Seekers and the Politics of Blackness / Bayo Holsey
  • 9. "The World is a Ghetto" : Postracial America(s) and the Apocalypse / Patrice Rankine
  • 10. The Long Road Home / Erin Aubry Kaplan
  • 11. Half as Good / John L. Jackson Jr.
  • 12. "Whither Now and Why" : Content Mastery and Pedagogy : a Critique and a Challenge / Dana A. Williams
  • 13. Fallacies of the Post Race Presidency / Ishmael Reed
  • 14. Thirteen Ways of Looking at Post-Blackness (after Wallace Stevens) / Emily Raboteau
  • Conclusion: Why the Lega Mask Has Many Mouths and Multiple Eyes / Houston A. Baker.