TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gordon,Lewis R.
TI  - Fear of black consciousness
SN  - 9780374159023
PY  - 2022///
CY  - New York
PB  - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
KW  - Black people
KW  - Race identity
KW  - Race awareness
KW  - Racism
KW  - Anti-racism
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-256) and index; Prologue -- Introduction: Struggling to breathe -- Bound. Feared ; Blackened ; Erased; or, "I don't see race" -- Race-making and racism. Race-making ; Racism intersected ; Privilege, luxury, license ; Trans but not transcended -- Political realities. Five kinds of invisibility ; Black consciousness is political ; Black consciousness in Wakanda -- Even when black and blue. Blue ; Valued
N2  - "In this original and penetrating work, Lewis R. Gordon, one of the leading scholars of Black existentialism and anti-Blackness, takes the reader on a journey through the historical development of racialized Blackness, the problems this kind of consciousness produces, and the many creative responses from Black and non-Black communities in contemporary struggles for dignity and freedom"--
ER  -