Post on 01-Jul-2015
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African Americans in the 21st Century
HOW WE GOT HERE: POST-RECONSTRUCTION
A President Justifies the Klan
The Nadir
Slavery and Neo-Slavery
Convict labor in steel and coal industries
The Great Migration: hope for a better life
But across America, Blacks are driven out…
…and kept out
Redlining in Chicago produces ghettos
Unequal Implementation of the G.I. Bill of Rights and FHA Loans
Structural Challenges to Social Mobility
Dearth of Black Businesses in Black Neighborhoods
African Americans and Prison
Mass Incarceration: a new system of disenfranchisement?
AFRICAN AMERICANS IN POP CULTURE
“White Savior” stories
“Magic” Negros
Films Set in an All Black Universe
The Remarkable Spike Lee
The Black TV Family Evolves
CONFLICTS AND CULTURAL DISTINCTIONS
The Quest for “Good” Hair
How many “black” Americas are there?
My parents
My wedding
So, What Are YOU Anyway?
Thanks!!
Lesley Williamsthecrankylibrarian@yahoo.com
aalevanston.blogspot.com
My Blog
Selected Sources
Hair Story: Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America, by Ayana Byrd and Lori Tharp
Some of My Best Friends are Black, by Tanner Colby
Disintegration, by Eugene Robinson
Sundown Towns, by James Loewen
Slavery by Another Name, by Douglas Blackmon
The Warmth of Other Suns, by Isabelle Wilkerson
The Century Cycle, by August Wilson
Men We Reaped, by Jesmyn Ward
The Pact, by Sampson Davis, Rameck Hunt, and George Jenkins
The New Jim Crow, by Michelle Alexander
Our Black Year, by Maggie Anderson
The N Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn’t and Why, by Jabari Asim
“The Case for Reparations”, by Ta neshi Coates. Atlantic Magazine, June 2014
The Strange Career of Jim Crow by Vann C. Woodward
The Hidden Cost of Being African American, by Thomas M. Shapiro.
Who’s Afraid of Post Blackness? by Toure
The Covenant With Black America, edited by Tavis Smiley and Cornel West
Is Bill Cosby Right? : Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost its Mind? by Michael Eric Dyson
The Spike Lee Reader, Edited by Paula J. Massood
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Tatum
When Affirmative Action Was White, by Ira Kaznelson