Free at Last?: Black America in the Twenty-first Century

by Juan Battle, Michael Bennett, Anthony J. Lemelle

Overview

As this volume indicates, the issues facing black America are diverse, and the tools needed to understand these phenomena cross disciplinary boundaries. In this anthology, the authors address a wide range of topics including race, gender, class, sexual orientation, globalism, migration, health, politics, culture, and urban issues-from a diversity of disciplinary perspectives.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781412805827
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/15/2006
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Juan Battle, Michael Bennett, Anthony J. Lemelle

Table of Contents

1: The Black Middle-Class; 2: The Mesh; 3: “Two Warring Ideals”; 4: Closets are for Clothes; 5: Clear and Present Dangers; 6: African American HIV/AIDS and Social Institutions; 7: The Color Line of American Politics; 8: “The Alpha and Omega of Our People”; 9: “White is Right”; 10: Black Identity Constructions; 11: The Same Old Danger/But a Brand New Pleasure”; 12: Sheep and Goats Together; 13: Citites in the New Millennium; 14: Participatory Action Research and Social Justice

Editorial Reviews

"Free at Last? accomplishes the heroic task of being interdisciplinary, integrated, and innovative. Battle, Bennett, and Lemelle bring together a diverse group of scholars across disciplines, locales, methods, and career stages to produce a comprehensive volume that goes beyond the important, but expected, topics of class and gender, to include analyses of sexuality, interracial relationships, urban politics, health, and protest. This is truly a breakthrough in our conceptualization of the black agenda."—Mary Pattillo, Associate Professor of Sociology and African American Studies, Northwestern University

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