num_pages: 416
description: Race. A four-letter word. The greatest social divide in American life a half-century ago and today. During that time the U.S. has seen the most dramatic demographic and cultural shifts in its history what can be called the colorization of America.But the same nation that elected its first Black president on a wave of hopeanother four-letter wordis still plunged into endless culture wars. How do Americans see race now? How has that changedand not changedover the half-century? After eras framed by words like multicultural and post-racial do we see each other any more clearly?Who We Be remixes comic strips and contemporary art campus protests and corporate marketing campaigns Martin Luther King Jr. and Trayvon Martin into a powerful unusual and timely cultural history of the idea of racial progress. In this follow-up to the award-winning classic Cant Stop Wont Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation Jeff Chang brings fresh energy style and sweep to the essential American story.
language: English
title: Who We Be: A Cultural History of Race in Post-Civil Rights America
publisher: St. Martin's Press