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Book

Black lives, American love : essays on race & resilience

Call Number

  • 305.896 M354 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Chicago : Lawrence Hill Books, [2024]

Physical Description

x, 234 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Summary

"This personal biography of America, offered from the thoughtful viewpoint of a Black anthropologist, takes on some of the country's fiercest debates and most profound challenges with an unflinching style. Black Lives, American Love is a relentless truth-telling about our country's failures to its Black population-yet it is also a discussion on how we might all do more to secure America's still vastly beautiful possibilities of liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all rather than a few"--

"As an African American cultural anthropologist and CEO of an urban research institute, D.B. Maroon is intimately involved with the nation's struggle to realize its promises equally for all people. Her work is to put those stories into the big picture of American culture-past, present, and future. Intersectional, personal, and hard-hitting in places, while ultimately centering on truth, love and perseverance, Black Lives, American Love weaves the stories of America's pursuits with Maroon's own experiences. The result is a personal biography of America offered from the thoughtful viewpoint of a Black anthropologist. The essays take on some of the country's fiercest debates and most profound challenges with an unflinching style: from the invention of race and debates about The 1619 Project, to the rippling impacts of resurgent White Nationalism, the birth of Black Lives Matter Movement, and the ongoing traumas of police brutality. Yet within its pages is the hopeful continuance of the Black community, the striving for better, the grappling with the hurt in order to soothe it with love, and to heal it with peace. Black Lives, American Love is a relentless truth-telling about America's failures to its Black population-yet it is also a discussion on how we might all do more to secure America's still vastly beautiful possibilities of liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all rather than a few"--

Contents

  • Black Lives : truth telling
  • Hope and rage
  • Sun jumping
  • An agape village
  • The great gentrification
  • Representation
  • Mahicantuk : an ever giving river
  • Creating Blackness
  • Black space
  • Black spectrums
  • Lil' bit uh luck
  • Firekeepers
  • Black 'n' blue : on state violence
  • 9/11 : 2001-2021
  • Real talk
  • Movements after May
  • The United States of America : origin stories
  • American love.

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