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In Race and Resistance: African Americans in the Twenty-First Century, 17 leading African-American scholars and activists discuss the state of Black America today and the prospects for achieving full civil rights and equality.
Edited by acclaimed journalist and author Herb Boyd, this broad, inclusive anthology makes a vital contribution to our understanding of racism and how it can be overcome.
Boyd, national editor of the online news publication The Black World Today, has assembled an outstanding group of essayists-including Amiri Baraka, Angela Davis, Bill Fletcher, bell hooks, Julianne Malveaux, Manning Marable, and Yvonne Bynoe—writing on a variety of topics, including hip hop and activism, blacks in the labor movement, the emergence of the Black Radical Congress, black feminism, and the criminal justice system.
As Boyd writes in his introduction, "while many of the issues facing African Americans at the beginning of the twenty-first century are not novel, our strategies for self-determination, expression, and indeed, resistance, have had to be consistently inventive and resourceful to be effective. Whether through coalition-building, music, poetry, or frontline activism, the contributors to this anthology dip in the well of theory and practice that has nourished generations of African American activists and invent new ways to challenge the status quo."
Herb Boyd is author of Autobiography of a People, Black Panthers for Beginners, and African History for Beginners. He is co-editor of Brotherman: The Odyssey of Black Men in America, winner of the American Book Award for non-fiction. He teaches at the College of New Rochelle.
PRAISE for Brotherman:
"An outstanding collection….The purpose of this extraordinary anthology is made abundantly clear by the editors' stated intention: to create a living mosaic of essays and stories in which Black men can view themselves."
Cloth edition $40.00 ISBN 0-89608-653-4
Paper edition $17.00 ISBN 0-89608-652-6
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