Who's afraid of post-blackness?
Subtitle: what it means to be Black now
By: Touré ; foreword by Michael Eric Dyson
Edition: 1st Free Press hardcover ed.
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9781439177556; 9781439177570; 9781439177563
Subjects: Race relations; African Americans; Psychology; Race identity
Description: In the age of Obama, racial attitudes have become more complicated and nuanced than ever before. Inspired by a president who is unlike any Black man ever seen on our national stage, we are searching for new ways of understanding Blackness. In this book, the author, a commentator and journalist tackles what it means to be Black in America today. He begins by examining the concept of "Post-Blackness," a term that defines artists who are proud to be Black but don't want to be limited by identity politics and boxed in by race. He soon discovers that the desire to be rooted in but not constrained by Blackness is everywhere. In this book he argues that Blackness is infinite, that any identity imaginable is Black, and that all expressions of Blackness are legitimate. -- From the publsher.
Notes: Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Million ways to be Black; title: Keep it real is a prison; title: "Shut up, Toure! you ain't Black!"; title: Most racist thing that ever happened; title: The rise and fall of a post-Black king; title: Do you really love being Black?; title: How to build more Baracks; title: Nigga; title: Quintessential Americans.