Author: C. Sunny MartinPublisher:
ISBN: 9781933879109
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Who's Who in Black Atlanta
Author: C. Sunny MartinPublisher:
ISBN: 9781933879109
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness?
Author: TouréPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439177554
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
How do we make sense of what it means to be Black in a world with room for both Michelle Obama and Precious? Tour , an iconic commentator and journalist, defines and demystifies modern Blackness with wit, authority, and irreverent humor. In the age of Obama, racial attitudes have become more complicated and nuanced than ever before. Americans are searching for new ways of understanding Blackness, partly inspired by a President who is unlike any Black man ever seen on our national stage. This book aims to destroy the notion that there is a correct or even definable way of being Black. It’s a discussion mixing the personal and the intellectual. It gives us intimate and painful stories of how race and racial expectations have shaped Tour ’s life as well as a look at how the concept of Post-Blackness functions in politics, psychology, the Black visual arts world, Chappelle’s Show, and more. For research Tour has turned to some of the most important luminaries of our time for frank and thought-provoking opinions, including Rev. Jesse Jackson, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Cornel West, Michael Eric Dyson, Melissa Harris-Lacewell, Malcolm Gladwell, Harold Ford, Jr., Kara Walker, Kehinde Wiley, Chuck D, and many others. Their comments and disagreements with one another may come as a surprise to many readers. Of special interest is a personal racial memoir by the author in which he depicts defining moments in his life when he confronts the question of race head-on. In another chapter—sure to be controversial—he explains why he no longer uses the word “nigga.” Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness? is a complex conversation on modern America that aims to change how we perceive race in ways that are as nuanced and spirited as the nation itself.
Who's Who Among African Americans
Author: Gale GroupPublisher: Gale Cengage
ISBN: 9780787659158
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1622
Book Description
Each new edition of this respected resource is a comprehensive recording the scope of African American achievement. Who's Who Among African Americans provides biographical and career details on more than 20,000 notable African American individuals, including leaders from sports, the arts, business, religion and more. Includes geographic and occupational indexes as well as an obituary section updating entries for listees who have died since the previous edition.
Who's Who in Black Cleveland
Author: Sunny C. MartinPublisher:
ISBN: 9781933879123
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Who's Who in Black Cincinnati
Author: Who's Who PublishingPublisher: Who's Who Pub.
ISBN: 9780976306924
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Who's Who in Black Indianapolis
Author: C. Sunny MartinPublisher:
ISBN: 9781933879024
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
A Man in Full
Author: Tom WolfePublisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1429960698
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
The Bonfire of the Vanities defined an era--and established Tom Wolfe as our prime fictional chronicler of America at its most outrageous and alive. With A Man in Full, the time the setting is Atlanta, Georgia--a racially mixed late-century boomtown full of fresh wealth, avid speculators, and worldly-wise politicians. Big men. Big money. Big games. Big libidos. Big trouble. The protagonist is Charles Croker, once a college football star, now a late-middle-aged Atlanta real-estate entrepreneur turned conglomerate king, whose expansionist ambitions and outsize ego have at last hit up against reality. Charlie has a 28,000-acre quail-shooting plantation, a young and demanding second wife--and a half-empty office tower with a staggering load of debt. When star running back Fareek Fanon--the pride of one of Atlanta's grimmest slums--is accused of raping an Atlanta blueblood's daughter, the city's delicate racial balance is shattered overnight. Networks of illegal Asian immigrants crisscrossing the continent, daily life behind bars, shady real-estate syndicates, cast-off first wives of the corporate elite, the racially charged politics of college sports--Wolfe shows us the disparate worlds of contemporary America with all the verve, wit, and insight that have made him our most phenomenal, most admired contemporary novelist. A Man in Full is a 1998 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.
Who's who in Colored America
Author: Who's Who in Black Columbus
Author: C. Sunny MartinPublisher:
ISBN: 9781933879147
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
The Wind Done Gone
Author: Alice RandallPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618219063
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
A parody of Gone with the wind, this novel tells the story of Cynara, the mulatto half-sister born into slavery who eventually triumphs.