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Black on Black : on our resilience and brilliance in America / Daniel Black.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Toronto, Ontario : Hanover Square Press, [2023]Copyright date: ©2023Description: 256 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781335449382
  • 1335449388
Other title:
  • On our resilience and brilliance in America
Uniform titles:
  • Essays. Selections.
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Introduction -- Reasons I write -- When I was a boy -- The trial and massacre of the Black body -- Prayer won't fix this: what to do with the Black church -- Black, but not beautiful: an aesthetic dilemma -- When WE see us -- Dying to be loved -- The beauty and struggles of the HBCUs -- Nowhere to hide (or the dream of the closet) -- Integration: a failed experiment -- Massa, don't leave me! -- Harriet's chariot -- The power of POSE.
Summary: Now, in his debut essay collection, Daniel Black gives voice to the experiences of those who often find themselves on the margins. Tackling topics ranging from police brutality to the AIDS crisis to the role of HBCUs to queer representation in the Black church, Black celebrates the resilience, fortitude and survival of Black people in a land where their body is always on display.
Holdings
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Adult Book Adult Book Dr. James Carlson Library NonFiction 305.896 B627 Available 33111011036775
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 305.896 B627 Available 33111010955017
Adult Book Adult Book Northport Library NonFiction 305.896 B627 Available 33111009462231
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

*From the Viral Clark Atlanta University Commencement Speaker*

???????*From the Georgia Author of the Year Award Winner*

*A Zibby's Most Anticipated Book of 2023*

*A "Next Big Idea Club" Must-Read Book for January*

*An Essence "Books by Black Authors to Read This Winter" Pick?*

*An Ebony Entertainment "Required Reading" Book for January*

*A Lambda Literary "Most Anticipated LGBTQIA+ Literature" for January*

*A Southern Review of Books Best Book of January*



A piercing collection of essays on racial tension in America and the ongoing fight for visibility, change, and lasting hope



"There are stories that must be told."



Acclaimed novelist and scholar Daniel Black has spent a career writing into the unspoken, fleshing out, through storytelling, pain that can't be described.



Now, in his debut essay collection, Black gives voice to the experiences of those who often find themselves on the margins. Tackling topics ranging from police brutality to the AIDS crisis to the role of HBCUs to queer representation in the black church, Black on Black celebrates the resilience, fortitude, and survival of black people in a land where their body is always on display.



As Daniel Black reminds us, while hope may be slow in coming, it always arrives, and when it does, it delivers beyond the imagination. Propulsive, intimate, and achingly relevant, Black on Black is cultural criticism at its openhearted best.

Now, in his debut essay collection, Daniel Black gives voice to the experiences of those who often find themselves on the margins. Tackling topics ranging from police brutality to the AIDS crisis to the role of HBCUs to queer representation in the Black church, Black celebrates the resilience, fortitude and survival of Black people in a land where their body is always on display.

Introduction -- Reasons I write -- When I was a boy -- The trial and massacre of the Black body -- Prayer won't fix this: what to do with the Black church -- Black, but not beautiful: an aesthetic dilemma -- When WE see us -- Dying to be loved -- The beauty and struggles of the HBCUs -- Nowhere to hide (or the dream of the closet) -- Integration: a failed experiment -- Massa, don't leave me! -- Harriet's chariot -- The power of POSE.

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