Post Black
*NEW IN DECEMBER 2011*
How a New Generation is Redefining African American Identity
This book describes the new dynamics shaping the lives of African Americans today. Using information from conversations with mavericks within black communities – such as entrepreneurs, artists, scholars, and activists as well as members of both the working and upper classes – it gives voice to what the author calls ‘post black' approaches to business, lifestyles, and religion. This new black identity is strikingly different from the images handed down from previous generations. It offers new types of behaviour, such as those shown by President Obama, gays and lesbians, young professionals, and black Buddhists. Contending that this new generation feels as unwelcome in traditional black churches as in hip-hop clubs, this provocative book dispels myths about current black identity. Authors: Derek T. Dingle and Ytasha L. Womack. (206 pages)
Level: 2nd and 3rd Years of Gymnasium / A Teacher's Resource
Contents
Introduction: Identity theft
The generation gap: the young black professional
The African diaspora: new immigrants in African America
Bridges: biracial, bicultural identity
Black, gay, lesbian, and proud: GLBT in black America
Spirituality: the new black religious experience
The hip-hop factor: black art in a commercial landscape
Black entrepreneurs: new urban impresarios and postracial shopkeepers
Talented tenth revisited: capitalism versus social responsibility
Neofeminism: womanist values in the age of the video girl
The Obama factor: redefining possibility.