Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness?: What It Means to Be Black Now

by Touré and Michael Eric Dyson

Book Overview

In this provocative book, writer, and cultural critic Tour explores the concept of Post-Blackness: the ability for someone to be rooted in but not restricted by their race.

Tour begins his book by examining the concept of "Post-Blackness," a term that defines artists who are proud to be Black, but don't want to be limited by identity politics and boxed in by race. He soon discovers that the desire to be rooted in but...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1439177562
• ISBN13: 9781439177563
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Atria Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.5"