Post Black: How a New Generation Is Redefining African American Identity
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Overview
In Post Black: How a New Generation Is Redefining African American Identity, Womack takes a fresh look at dynamics shaping the lives of contemporary African Americans. Although grateful to generations that have paved the way, many cannot relate to the rhetoric of pundits who speak as ambassadors of black life any more than they see themselves in exaggerated hip-hop images. Combining interviews, opinions of experts, and extensive research, Post Black will open the eyes of some, validate the lives of others, and provide a realistic picture of the expanding community.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781556528057 |
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Publisher: | Chicago Review Press, Incorporated |
Publication date: | 01/01/2010 |
Pages: | 224 |
Product dimensions: | 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Foreword: A New Age Derek Dingle, editor of Black Enterprise ix
Introduction: Identity Theft 1
1 The Generation Gap: The Young Black Professional 29
2 The African Diaspora: New Immigrants in African America 49
3 Bridges: Biracial, Bicultural Identity 65
4 Black, Gay, Lesbian, and Proud: GLBT in Black America 81
5 Spirituality:The New Black Religious Experience 97
6 The Hip-Hop Factor: Black Art in a Commercial Landscape 113
7 Black Entrepreneurs: New Urban Impresarios and Postracial Shopkeepers 127
8 Talented Tenth Revisited: Capitalism Versus Social Responsibility 139
9 Neofeminism: Womanist Values in the Age of the Video Girl 157
10 The Obama Factor: Redefining Possibility 173
Acknowledgments 191
Sources 193
Index 202
What People are Saying About This
Ytasha Womack is rewriting the script for Hip hop generation authors. Her work challenges norms, as she seeks to represent the multiple and intersectional identities of contemporary black professionals that have yet to be adequately illustrated in popular culture. (Dawn-Elissa Fischer, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Africana Studies, San Francisco State University; associate director, Hip Hop Archive, Harvard University)
Post Black hits home with sincerity, courage, hope, and passion that empowers the reader to look deep into the heart of one of most intriguing and pervasive debates in the African American experience. (John Jennings, associate professor of design; teacher, The Visual Culture of Hip Hop; and illustrator, The Hole: Consumer Culture.)
An innovative, fresh take on black identity in the 21st Century. This book shows the unique diversity in the black community, one often mistaken to be monolithic, but is anything but. A must read. (Bob Meadows, writer, People Magazine)
"Ytasha Womack is rewriting the script for Hip Hop generation authors. Her work challenges norms, as she seeks to represent the multiple and intersectional identities of contemporary black professionals that have yet to be adequately illustrated in popular culture." Dawn-Elissa Fischer, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Africana Studies, San Francisco State University; associate director, Hip Hop Archive, Harvard University
"An innovative, fresh take on black identity in the 21st Century. This book shows the unique diversity in the black community, one often mistaken to be monolithic, but is anything but. A must read." Bob Meadows, writer, People Magazine
"Post Black hits home with sincerity, courage, hope, and passion that empowers the reader to look deep into the heart of one of most intriguing and pervasive debates in the African American experience." John Jennings, associate professor of design; teacher, The Visual Culture of Hip Hop; and illustrator, The Hole: Consumer Culture