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- Black Talk, Blue Thoughts, and Walking the Color Line: Dispatches from a Black Journalista
- Book
- 2011
- Published by: Northeastern University Press
summary
Los Angeles has had a ringside seat during the long last century of racial struggle in America. The bouts have been over money and jobs and police brutality, over politics and poetry and rap and basketball. Minimizing blackness itself has been touted as the logical and ideal solution to the struggle, but in Black Talk, Blue Thoughts, and Walking the Color Line Erin Aubry Kaplan begs to differ. With eloquence, wit, and high prose style she crafts a series of compelling arguments against black eclipse.
Here are thirty-three insightful and wide-ranging pieces of literary, cultural, political, and personal reporting on the contemporary black American experience. Drawn from the Los Angeles Times, LA Weekly, Salon.com, and elsewhere, this collection also features major new articles on President Barack Obama, black and Hispanic conflicts, and clinical depression. In each, Kaplan argues with meticulous observation, razor-sharp intelligence, and sparkling prose against the trend of black erasure, and for the expansion of horizons of the black American story.
Here are thirty-three insightful and wide-ranging pieces of literary, cultural, political, and personal reporting on the contemporary black American experience. Drawn from the Los Angeles Times, LA Weekly, Salon.com, and elsewhere, this collection also features major new articles on President Barack Obama, black and Hispanic conflicts, and clinical depression. In each, Kaplan argues with meticulous observation, razor-sharp intelligence, and sparkling prose against the trend of black erasure, and for the expansion of horizons of the black American story.
Table of Contents
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- Foreword. The Physics of Race
- pp. xi-xvi
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xvii-xviii
- Introduction
- pp. xix-xxiv
- Generation I
- Fire and Ice: Making It Up
- pp. 19-22
- Blackness Itself
- pp. 22-28
- Down and Downer*
- pp. 29-36
- Blue Like Me: On Race and Depression
- pp. 37-54
- State of a Nation
- Losing New Orleans
- pp. 70-77
- They’re Going Crazy Out There
- pp. 84-86
- Starring:
- Falling for Tiger Woods
- pp. 105-109
- Stomping Grounds
- Rags to Richard*
- pp. 144-151
- The Eastside Boys
- pp. 152-163
- Wearing the Shirt*
- pp. 177-182
- Lost Soul: A Lament for Black Los Angeles
- pp. 182-196
- Mothers and Fathers
- The Last Campaign
- pp. 199-203
- Mother Roux
- pp. 203-207
- Mother, Unconceived
- pp. 208-212
- Teach on That
- Held Back: The State of Black Education
- pp. 215-226
- Man and Superwoman
- pp. 227-231
- The Glamorous Life*
- pp. 231-241
- The Boy of Summer
- pp. 241-244
- Unsocial Studies
- pp. 244-256
- Post Script
- The Color of Love
- pp. 259-263
Additional Information
ISBN
9781555537661
Related ISBN(s)
9781555537548
MARC Record
OCLC
778618805
Pages
304
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No