Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-240) and index
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Like one of the family : race, ethnicity, and the paradox of American national identity -- Will the "real" mother please stand up? : race, class, and American national family planning -- Black nationalism and African American ethnicity : Afrocentrism as civil religion -- When fighting words are not enough : the gendered content of Afrocentrism -- Why collective identity politics matter : feminism, nationalism, and Black women's community work -- Is the personal still political? : the women's movement, feminism, and Black women in the hip-hop generation
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Examines the new forms of racism in American life and the political responses to them. Using the experiences of African American men and women as her touchstone, the author covers a wide range of issues that connect questions of race to American identity. She follows the long arc of African American responses to racism in the US, from Black Nationalism, to Black feminism, to hip hop. Using this "genealogy," she then investigates how nationalism has operated and reemerged in the wake of contemporary globalization and the unexpected resurgence of nationalism. She then offers an interpretation of how Black nationalism works today in the wake of changing Black youth identity and the continuing need to draw on nationalism and feminism to formulate both a response to racism and a concrete platform of political action. --Publisher description