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xxxii, 496 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm
"Black in America samples the breadth of nonfiction writing on African American experiences in the United States from the eighteenth century to the present. The anthology emphasizes twenty-first-century authors such as Ta-Nehisi Coates, Claudia Rankine, and Roxane Gay, but a substantial selection of important earlier writers--from Phillis Wheatley and Olaudah Equiano, through Sojourner Truth and Frederick Douglass, to James Baldwin and Audre Lorde--is also included. The second edition has been updated to feature notable works that have appeared since the first edition was published in 2018, particularly including works addressing the COVID-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement; the new edition also includes more selections that emphasize the joy and beauty of being Black in America. Selections are arranged by author in rough chronological order and feature headnotes, explanatory notes, and discussion questions to facilitate student engagement. A companion website contains additional readings; alternative tables of contents listing material by thematic subject and by genre and rhetorical style; an additional set of explanatory notes for the benefit of international students and/or non-native speakers of English; and links to further readings and other resources such as speeches, recitations, TED talks, and music videos."--
Contents by Subject -- Contents by Genre and Rhetorical Category -- Suggested Pairs and Groups -- Preface -- On Being Brought from Africa to America / Phillis Wheatley -- from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano / Olaudah Equiano -- Speech Delivered at the Akron, Ohio, Convention on Women's Rights, 1851 / Sojourner Truth -- from Fourth of July Oration / Frederick Douglass -- from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Seven Years Concealed / Harriet Jacobs -- Letter from a Freedman to His Old Master / Jordan Anderson -- We Are All Bound Up Together / Frances Ellen Watkins Harper -- Speech Delivered at the Cotton States and International Exposition, 18 September 1895 / Booker T. Washington -- Lift Every Voice and Sing / James Weldon Johnson -- from Lynch Law in America / Ida B. Wells -- from Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases / Ida B. Wells -- from Hon. Frederick Douglass / Pauline Hopkins -- Of Our Spiritual Strivings (from The Souls of Black Folk) / W.E.B. Du Bois -- from Of Mr. Booker T. Washing-ton and Others (from The Souls of Black Folk) / W.E.B. Du Bois -- The Niagara Movement's Declaration of Principles, 1905 / The Niagara Movement -- If We Must Die / Claude McKay -- The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain / Langston Hughes -- The Negro Woman and the Ballot / Alice Dunbar-Nelson -- How It Feels to Be Colored Me / Zora Neale Hurston -- A Talk to Teachers / James Baldwin -- My Dungeon Shook: Letter to My Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emanciaption / James Baldwin -- from The Wretched of the Earth / Frantz Fanon -- Letter from Birmingham Jail / Martin Luther King Jr. -- from The Autobiography of Malcolm X / Malcolm X -- Equal Rights for Women / Shirley Chisholm -- In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: The Creativity of Black Women in the South / Alice Walker -- A Black Feminist State-ment / The Combahee River Collective -- The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action / Audre Lorde -- Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism / Audre Lorde -- We Remember: African American Women Are for Reproductive Freedom / African American Women for Reproductive Freedom -- Coming to Class Consciousness (from Where We Stand) / bell hooks -- A More Perfect Union / Barack Obama --
[continued:] from The New Jim Crow / Michelle Alexander -- from Super Black: American Pop Culture and Black Su-perheroes / Adilfu Nama - from "To Aid in Everyway Possible in Uplifting the Colored People of America": Hopkin's Revisionary Definition of African American Success / Alisha Knight -- from Hip Hop's Li'l Sistas Speak: Negotiating Hip Hop Identities and Politics in the New South / Bettina Love -- Black, LGBT, Ameri-can: A Search for Sanctuaries / Darnell L. Moore -- The Case for Reparations / Ta-Nehisi Coates -- from The First White President / Ta-Nehisi Coates -- The Politics of Respectability / Roxane Gay -- from Citizen: An American Lyric / Claudia Rankine -- from Just Mercy / Bryan Stevenson -- School Segregation: The Continuing Tragedy of Ferguson / Nikole Hannah-Jones -- The Deadly Challenges of Raising African Ameri-can Boys: Navigating the Controlling Image of the "Thug" / Dawn Marie Dow -- Moonlight Portrays Black Gay Life in Its Joy, Sadness and Complexity / Steven W. Thrasher -- Truth: Remarks on the Removal of Confederate Monuments in New Orleans / Mitch Landrieu -- No, Black-Only Safe Spaces Are Not Racist / Cameron Glover -- Getting In and Out: Who Owns Black Pain? / Zadie Smith -- Taking a Knee with Colin Kaepernick and Standing with Stephen Curry against Trump / Jonathan Capehart -- Russell Simmons, R. Kelly, and Why Black Women Can't Say #MeToo / Shanita Hubbard -- Why Black Panther Is a Defining Moment for Black America / Carvell Wallace -- How RuPaul's Drag Race Fueled Pop Culture's Dominant Slang Engine / Lexi Pandell -- The Origin of Woke: How the Death of Woke Led to the Birth of Cancel Cul-ture / Elijah C. Watson -- Witness and Repair / Jesmyn Ward -- Racism Is Terrible. Blackness Is Not / Imani Perry -- The American Nightmare / Ibram X. Kendi -- The Just Use of Imagination: A Call to Action / Natasha N. Jones and Miriam F. Williams -- from Who Actually Gets to Create Black Pop Culture? / Ber-trand Cooper -- from Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature / Farah Jasmine Griffin -- The Defeat of Identity Politics / Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor -- For These Families, H.B.C.U.s Aren't Just an Option. They're a Tradition. /Lise Funderburg -- Soup Is So Much More Than Food / Damon Young -- Black Americans Are Leading a Vegan Movement / Omnia Saed -- Why Racial Discussions Should Also Focus on Progress / John McWhorter -- Biographical Notes -- Permissions Acknowledgments -- Index.
advisory editor, Jessica Edwards, University of Delaware ; textual editors, Laura Buzzard, Don LePan, Nora Ruddock, Helena Snopek, Alexandria Stuart, Maxwell Uphaus.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Peterborough, Ontario : Broadview Press, 2024