num_pages: 192
description: In these provocative powerful essays acclaimed writer/journalist Jeff Chang (Cant Stop Wont Stop Who We Be) takes an incisive and wide-ranging look at the recent tragedies and widespread protests that have shaken the country. Through deep reporting with key activists and thinkers passionately personal writing and distinguished cultural criticism We Gon Be Alright links #BlackLivesMatter to #OscarsSoWhite Ferguson to Washington D.C. the Great Migration to resurgent nativism. Chang explores the rise and fall of the idea of diversity the roots of student protest changing ideas about Asian Americanness and the impact of a century of racial separation in housing. He argues that resegregation is the unexamined condition of our time the undoing of which is key to moving the nation forward to racial justice and cultural equity.
language: English
title: We Gon' Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation
publisher: Picador