1st Edition

Free at Last? Black America in the Twenty-first Century

    304 Pages
    by Routledge

    304 Pages
    by Routledge

    As this volume indicates, the issues facing black America are diverse, and the tools needed to understand these phenomena cross disciplinary boundaries. In this anthology, the authors address a wide range of topics including race, gender, class, sexual orientation, globalism, migration, health, politics, culture, and urban issues-from a diversity of disciplinary perspectives.

    1: The Black Middle-Class; 2: The Mesh; 3: “Two Warring Ideals”; 4: Closets are for Clothes; 5: Clear and Present Dangers; 6: African American HIV/AIDS and Social Institutions; 7: The Color Line of American Politics; 8: “The Alpha and Omega of Our People”; 9: “White is Right”; 10: Black Identity Constructions; 11: The Same Old Danger/But a Brand New Pleasure”; 12: Sheep and Goats Together; 13: Citites in the New Millennium; 14: Participatory Action Research and Social Justice

    Biography

    Juan Battle, Michael Bennett, Anthony J. Lemelle