african american in 21st century

African Americans in the 21st Century

HOW WE GOT HERE: POST-RECONSTRUCTION

A President Justifies the Klan

The Nadir

Slavery and Neo-Slavery

Convict labor in steel and coal industries

The Great Migration: hope for a better life

But across America, Blacks are driven out…

…and kept out

Redlining in Chicago produces ghettos

Unequal Implementation of the G.I. Bill of Rights and FHA Loans

Structural Challenges to Social Mobility

Dearth of Black Businesses in Black Neighborhoods

African Americans and Prison

Mass Incarceration: a new system of disenfranchisement?

AFRICAN AMERICANS IN POP CULTURE

“White Savior” stories

“Magic” Negros

Films Set in an All Black Universe

The Remarkable Spike Lee

The Black TV Family Evolves

CONFLICTS AND CULTURAL DISTINCTIONS

The Quest for “Good” Hair

How many “black” Americas are there?

My parents

My wedding

So, What Are YOU Anyway?

Thanks!!

Lesley Williamsthecrankylibrarian@yahoo.com

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My Blog

Selected Sources

Hair Story: Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America, by Ayana Byrd and Lori Tharp

Some of My Best Friends are Black, by Tanner Colby

Disintegration, by Eugene Robinson

Sundown Towns, by James Loewen

Slavery by Another Name, by Douglas Blackmon

The Warmth of Other Suns, by Isabelle Wilkerson

The Century Cycle, by August Wilson

Men We Reaped, by Jesmyn Ward

The Pact, by Sampson Davis, Rameck Hunt, and George Jenkins

The New Jim Crow, by Michelle Alexander

Our Black Year, by Maggie Anderson

The N Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn’t and Why, by Jabari Asim

“The Case for Reparations”, by Ta neshi Coates. Atlantic Magazine, June 2014

The Strange Career of Jim Crow by Vann C. Woodward

The Hidden Cost of Being African American, by Thomas M. Shapiro.

Who’s Afraid of Post Blackness? by Toure

The Covenant With Black America, edited by Tavis Smiley and Cornel West

Is Bill Cosby Right? : Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost its Mind? by Michael Eric Dyson

The Spike Lee Reader, Edited by Paula J. Massood

Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Tatum

When Affirmative Action Was White, by Ira Kaznelson