Title: Who we be : the colorization of America /
Authors: Chang, Jeff
Year: 2014
Subjects: Social change United States; Cultural pluralism United States; Multiculturalism United States; Post-racialism United States.; Minorities United States; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General.; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations.; United States Race relations; United States Population.
Abstract: "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 hope--another four-letter word--is still plunged into endless culture wars. How do Americans see race now? How has that changed--and not changed--over 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 Can't Stop Won't Stop : A History of the Hip-Hop Generation, Jeff Chang brings fresh energy, style, and sweep to the essential American story"--
Contents: Seeing America -- Part One: A New Culture, 1963-1979 -- Chapter 1. Rainbow Power : Morrie Turner and the Kids -- Chapter 2. After Jericho : The Struggle Against Invisibility -- Chapter 3. "The Real Thing" : Lifestyling and Its Discontents -- Chapter 4. Every Man an Artist, Every Artist a Priest : The Invention of Multiculturalism -- Chapter 5. Color Theory : Race Trouble in the Avant-Garde -- Part Two: Who Are We? 1980-1993 -- Chapter 6. The End of the World As We Know It : Whiteness, the Rainbow, and the Culture Wars -- Chapter 7. Unity and Reconciliation : The Era of Identity -- Chapter 8. Imagine/Ever Wanting/to Be : The Fall of Multiculturalism -- Chapter 9. All the Colors in the World : The Mainstreaming of Multiculturalism -- Chapter 10. We Are All Multiculturalists Now : Visions of One America -- Part Three: The Colorization of America, 1993-2013 -- Chapter 11. Post Time : Identity in the New Millennium -- Chapter 12 Demographobia : Racial Fears and Colorized Futures -- Chapter 13. The Wave : The Hope of a New Cultural Majority -- Chapter 14. Dis/Union : The Paradox of the Post-Racial Moment -- Chapter 15. Who We Be : Debt, Community, and Colorization -- Dreaming America.