| Description |
xxi, 278 pages ; 24 cm. |
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Northeastern library of Black literature. |
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Northeastern library of Black literature.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Summary |
Los Angeles has a ringside seat during the long last century of racial struggle in America. The bouts have been over money and jobs and police brutality, over politics and poetry and rap and basketball. Minimizing blackness itself has been touted as the logical and ideal solution to the struggle, but in Black talk, blue thoughts, and walking the color line, Erin Aubry Kaplan begs to differ. With eloquence, wit, and high prose style she crafts a series of compelling arguments against black eclipse. Here are thirty-three insightful and side-ranging pieces of literary, cultural, political, and personal reporting on the contemporary black American experience. Drawn from the Los Angeles Times, LA Weekly, Salon.com, and elsewhere, this collection also features major new articles on President Barack Obama, black and Hispanic conflicts, and clinical depression. In each, Kaplan argues with meticulous observation, razor-sharp intelligence, and sparkling prose against the trend of black erasure, and for expansion of horizons of the black American story. -- Cover, p. [4]. |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Race identity.
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African Americans -- Psychology.
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African Americans -- Social conditions -- 1975-
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African Americans -- Intellectual life.
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African Americans in popular culture.
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Social psychology -- United States.
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United States -- Race relations.
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Self-perception.
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Kaplan, Erin Aubry.
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African American women journalists -- Biography.
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| ISBN |
9781555537548 paperback alkaline paper |
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1555537545 paperback alkaline paper |
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9781555537661 (e-book) |
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1555537669 (e-book) |
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