| Other author/creator | Cobb, Jelani, editor, writer of foreword. |
| Other author/creator | Remnick, David, editor. |
| Included Work | Baldwin, James, 1924-1987 Letter from a region in my mind. |
| Included Work | Morrison, Toni Color fetish. |
| Included Work | Gladwell, Malcolm, 1963- Black like them. |
| Included Work | Cobb, Jelani. Barack X. |
| Included Work | Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, 1977- Now is the time to talk about what we are actually talking about. |
| Included Work | Sanneh, Kelefa. Color of injustice. |
| Included Work | Lee, Andrea, 1953- Quilts. |
| Included Work | Kincaid, Jamaica. Putting myself together. |
| Included Work | Allen, Danielle S., 1971- American inferno. |
| Included Work | Broom, Sarah M. Yellow house. |
| Portion of title |
Black lives |
| Contents |
Foreword / Jelani Cobb -- Part I. Reflections: Letter from a region in my mind / James Baldwin -- The color fetish / Toni Morrison -- Black like them / Malcolm Gladwell -- Barack X / Jelani Cobb -- Now is the time to talk about what we are actually talking about / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie -- The color of injustice / Kelefa Sanneh |
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Part II. Personal histories: Quilts / Andrea Lee -- Putting myself together / Jamaica Kincaid -- American inferno / Danielle Allen -- The yellow house / Sarah Broom -- Test case / Vinson Cunningham |
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Part III. The political scene: Reaching for the moon / Jervis Anderson -- Saint Pauli / Kathryn Schulz -- Letter from Jackson / Calvin Trillin -- Letter from Selma / Renata Adler -- The charmer / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- Mourning for whiteness / Toni Morrison -- The southern strategist / Jelani Cobb |
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Part IV. Life and letters: Phillis Wheatley on trial / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- A society of one / Claudia Roth Pierpont -- Hughes at Columbia / Charlayne Hunter-Gault -- King of cats / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- Ghosts in the house / Hilton Als -- Secret histories / Alexis Okeowo |
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Part V. Onward and upward with the arts: Voice of the century / Alex Ross -- The colossus / Stanley Crouch -- American untouchable / Emily Nussbaum -- Brother from another mother / Zadie Smith -- Radical alienation / Calvin Tompkins -- The shadow act / Hilton Als -- Gettin' paid / Kelefa Sanneh -- The mask of metal-face doom / Ta-Nehisi Coates -- The autofictions of Kendrick Lamar / Doreen St. Félix |
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Part VI. Annals of the law: Opera in Greenville / Rebecca West -- Black bodies in motion and in pain / Edwidge Danticat -- A darker presence / Vinson Cunningham -- Before the law / Jennifer Gonnerman -- The forgotten ones / Rachel Aviv -- The color of blood / Calvin Trillin |
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Part VII. The uprising and after: The matter of Black lives / Jelani Cobb -- The uprising / Luke Mogelson -- The riot report / Jill Lepore -- How do we change America? / Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor -- The Trayvon generation / Elizabeth Alexander -- Homecoming / Hilton Als. |
| Abstract |
"A collection of The New Yorker's groundbreaking writing on race in America--including work by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Hilton Als, Zadie Smith, and more--with a foreword by Jelani Cobb. This anthology from the pages of the New Yorker provides a bold and complex portrait of Black life in America, told through stories of private triumphs and national tragedies, political vision and artistic inspiration. It reaches back across a century, with Rebecca West's classic account of a 1947 lynching trial and James Baldwin's "Letter from a Region in My Mind" (which later formed the basis of The Fire Next Time), and yet it also explores our current moment, from the classroom to the prison cell and the upheavals of what Jelani Cobb calls "the American Spring." Bringing together reporting, profiles, memoir, and criticism from writers such as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Elizabeth Alexander, Hilton Als, Vinson Cunningham, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Malcolm Gladwell, Jamaica Kincaid, Kelefa Sanneh, Doreen St. F̌lix, and others, the collection offers startling insights about this country's relationship with race. The Matter of Black Lives reveals the weight of a singular history, and challenges us to envision the future anew. " -- Provided by publisher. |
| Genre/form | Essays. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| Genre/form | Essays. |
| Other title |
New Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925) |
| ISBN | 9780063017597 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 0063017598 (hardcover) |
