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Book

Black genius : essays on an American legacy

Call Number

  • 973.0496 J698 (CEN, OSH)

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Publication Information

New York, NY : Dutton, [2025]

Physical Description

xxiii, 289 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm

Summary

"A powerful read examining the lack of opportunity given to Black Americans due to structural racism, and how forgotten historical figures and the author's own family found a way to succeed despite the obstacles"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents

  • Your best bet is All-Negro Comics! (graphic novels and Black culture)
  • Streemal (navigating America's education)
  • Live right, do right, fight like hell (family and legacy)
  • The 5th Dimension (celebration in America's face)
  • Whatever doesn't kill you only mutates and tries again (performance in the streets)
  • Agitate! Agitate! (Black paranoia and surveillance)
  • The branch that grew back (communities and neighborhood transformation)
  • Vimeo killed the internet star (Black folks in the digital age)
  • The Imagined World (the future Black world).

Subjects

Genres

Essays.