The Trouble with Post-Blackness /

The Trouble with Post-Blackness / / ed. by Houston Baker Jr., K. Merinda Simmons.

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An America in which the color of one's skin no longer matters would be unprecedented. With the election of President Barack Obama in 2008, that future suddenly seemed possible. Obama's rise reflects a nation of fluid populations and fortunes, a society in which a biracial individual could...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
HerausgeberIn:
Baker Jr., Houston,
Simmons, K. Merinda,
MitwirkendeR:
Baker, Houston A.,
Crawford, Margo Natalie,
Holsey, Bayo,
Jackson, John L.,
Kaplan, Erin Aubry,
Li, Stephanie,
Raboteau, Emily,
Rankine, Patrice,
Reed, Ishmael,
Richardson, Riché,
Russell, Heather D.,
Shavers, Rone,
Simmons, K. Merinda,
Thomas, Greg,
Williams, Dana A.,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: The Dubious Stage of Post-Blackness- Performing Otherness, Conserving Dominance
  • 1. "What Was Is": The Time and Space of Entanglement Erased by Post-Blackness
  • 2. Black Literary Writers and Post-Blackness
  • 3. African Diasporic Blackness Out of Line: Trouble for "Post-Black" African Americanism
  • 4. Fear of a Performative Planet: Troubling the Concept of "Post-Blackness"
  • 5. E-Raced: #Touré, Twitter, and Trayvon
  • 6. Post-Blackness and All of the Black Americas
  • 7. Embodying Africa: Roots-Seekers and the Politics of Blackness
  • 8. "The world is a ghetto": Post-Racial America(s) and the Apocalypse
  • 9. The Long Road Home
  • 10. Half as Good
  • 11. "Whither Now and Why": Content Mastery and Pedagogy- A Critique and a Challenge
  • 12. Fallacies of the Post-Race Presidency
  • 13. Thirteen Ways of Looking at Post-Blackness (after Wallace Stevens)
  • Conclusion: Why the Lega Mask Has Many Mouths and Multiple Eyes
  • List of Contributors
  • Index

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