Reading African American experiences in the Obama era
Subtitle: theory, advocacy, activism
By: edited by Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, Shanesha R.F. Brooks-Tatum
Series: Black studies and critical thinking -- v. 8
Publisher: Peter Lang; Lang Publishing, Incorporated, Peter
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781433111280; 9781433111259; 9781453902103
Subjects: Post-racialism; Race identity; Influence; Racism; Race relations; Social conditions; Political aspects; African Americans
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The (new?) "rap on race" : historicizing calls for racial dialogue in the early years of Barack Obama's presidency / Shawn Anthony Christian; title: The next chapter of our story : rethinking African American metanarratives in schooling and society / Ebony Elizabeth Thomas; title: Double consciousness : the context and consequences of black racial identity in the Obama era / Kafi Damali Kumasi; title: Schools of hope : teaching literacy in the Obama era / Jane Bean-Folkes; title: Where do we go from; title: where? : identifying the ideological bases of low-income, urban black adolescents' views on racism / Alfred W. DeFreece, Jr; title: Transformative educational spaces : black youth and education in the 21st century / Shanesha R.F. Brooks-Tatum; title: The Obama effect : using a culturally relevant pedagogy at a historically African American university / Karen Keaton Jackson; title: "The evidence of things not seen" : faith and persuasion in the Obama era / Zandra L. Jordan; title: Hip-hop's president : the genre, his genius, our generation / Jamal R. Burke; title: "As if the walls could speak" : imagining postmemories of U.S. slavery in the age of Obama / Khaliah Mangrum; title: African Americans and the U.S. prison-industrial complex / Gregory L. Caldwell, Keisha L. Green; title: Taking the pulse of our communities : the state of black public health in the Obama era / Nutrena Watts Tate, Jonnie Perryman Hamilton; title: Black love as activism : restoring our families and communities / Gloria B. Mills, Marcelle M. Haddix; title: Afterword / Zeus Leonardo.