Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness?: What it Means to be Black Now

Within the age of Obama, racial attitudes have turn out to be more complicated and nuanced than ever before. Inspired by a president who is in contrast to any Black man ever seen on our national stage, we are looking for new methods of understanding Blackness. On this provocative new ebook, iconic commentator and journalist TourÉ tackles what it means to be Black in America today.
TourÉ begins by inspecting the idea of “Put up-Blackness,” a term that defines artists who are proud to be Black however don't need to be limited by identification politics and boxed in by race. He quickly discovers that the need to be rooted in however not constrained by Blackness is everywhere. In Who’s Afraid of Submit-Blackness? he argues that Blackness is infinite, that any identification possible is Black, and that every one expressions of Blackness are legitimate.

Right here, TourÉ divulges intimate, funny, and painful tales of how race and racial expectations have shaped his life and explores how the idea of Put up-Blackness capabilities in politics, society, psychology, artwork, culture, and more. He knew he couldn't sort out this subject all on his personal so he turned to 105 of crucial luminaries of our time for frank and thought-frightening opinions, together with the Reverend Jesse Jackson, Cornel West, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Malcolm Gladwell, Michael Eric Dyson, Melissa Harris-Perry, Harold Ford Jr., Kara Walker, Kehinde Wiley, Glenn Ligon, Paul Mooney, New York Governor David Paterson, Greg Tate, Aaron McGruder, Soledad O'Brien, Kamala Harris, Chuck D, Mumia Abu-Jamal, and many others.



By partaking this good, eclectic group, and using his signature perception, braveness, and wit, TourÉ delivers a clarion name on race in America and the way we are able to change our perceptions for a better future. Destroying the notion that there is a right approach of being Black, Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness? will change how we understand race forever.



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