edited by Sandra L. Barnes, Zandria F. Robinson, Earl Wright II
ix, 203 pages ;
24 cm
SUNY series in African American studies
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction: Repositioning race: prophetic research in a postracial Obama age -- Part I. The Pitfalls and Possibilities of Prophetic Race Theory: Cultivating Leadership. Race matters in "postracial" OBAMERICA and how to climb out of the rabbit hole / Eduardo Bonilla-Silva with Trenita Brookshire Childers -- Am I my brother's and my sister's keeper? W.E.B. Du Bois's new talented tenth / Earl Wright II -- Blackening up critical whiteness: Dave Chappelle as critical race theorist / Robert L. Reece -- Part II. Daily Experiences and Implications of the Postracial Obama Age. Race, the Great Recession, and the foreclosure crisis: from American dream to nightmare / Cedric Herring, Loren Henderson, and Hayward Derrick Horton -- Black experiences, white experiences: why we need a theory of systemic racism / Louwanda Evans and Joe Feagin -- Part III. Diasporic Black Identities in International Contexts. Contextualizing "race" in the Dominican Republic: discourses on whitening, nationalism and anti-Haitianism / Antonio D. Tillis -- "U.S. blacks are beautiful but Brazilian blacks are not racist": Brazilian return migrants' perceptions of U.S. and Brazilian blacks / Tiffany D. Joseph -- Africa speaks: the "place" of Africa in constructing African American identity in museum exhibits / Derrick R. Brooms -- Epilogue: Back to the future of race studies: a new millennium Du Boisian mode of inquiry
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African Americans-- Social conditions-- 21st century