Black in America (2nd ed.)
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Title
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Black in America (2nd ed.)
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This edition
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"Black in America: A Broadview Topics Reader". Ed. Jessica Edwards. 2nd ed. Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press, 2024. 540 pp.
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Online access
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There is a companion website for the anthology that "offers links to a variety of online content and resources—including speeches, recitations, TED talks, songs, music videos, lyrics, and more—that relate to and expand on the selections in the bound book. Also provided are a second set of explanatory notes, going beyond the footnotes included in the bound book, for the benefit of students who have limited familiarity with American culture and/or have learned English as an additional language; alternative tables of contents by topic and by genre/rhetorical category; and downloadable copies of several readings included in the book’s first edition, featuring the same apparatus as the bound book contents and edited to the same standard."
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Broadview Press (companion website)
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Table of contents
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[Items new to this edition are noted with an asterisk inside parentheses (*)]
Contents by Subject
Contents by Genre and Rhetorical Category
Suggested Pairs and Groups
● Jessica Edwards / Preface
● Phillis Wheatley / On Being Brought from Africa to America (*)
● Olaudah Equiano / from "The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano"
● Sojourner Truth / Speech Delivered at the Akron, Ohio, Convention on Women’s Rights, 1851
● Frederick Douglass / from Fourth of July Oration
● Harriet Jacobs / from "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Seven Years Concealed"
● Jordan Anderson / Letter from a Freedman to His Old Master
● Frances Elen Watkins Harper / We Are All Bound Up Together (*)
● Booker T. Washington / Speech Delivered at the Cotton States and International Exposition, 18 September 1895
● James Weldon Johnson / Lift Every Voice and Sing
● Ida B. Wells / from "Lynch Law in America"
● Ida B. Wells / from "Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases"
● Pauline Hopkins / from Hon. Frederick Douglass (online)
● W.E.B. Du Bois / Of Our Spiritual Strivings [from "The Souls of Black Folk"]
● W.E.B. Du Bois / from Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others [from "The Souls of Black Folk"]
● The Niagara Movement / The Niagara Movement’s Declaration of Principles, 1905
● Claude McKay / If We Must Die
● Langston Hughes / The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain
● Alice Dunbar-Nelson / The Negro Woman and the Ballot
● Zora Neale Hurston / How It Feels to Be Colored Me
● James Baldwin / A Talk to Teachers (*)
● James Baldwin / My Dungeon Shook: Letter to My Nephew on the Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation (*)
● Frantz Fanon / from "The Wretched of the Earth"
● Martin Luther King Jr. / Letter from Birmingham Jail
● Malcolm X with Alex Haley / from "The Autobiography of Malcolm X"
● Shirley Chisholm / Equal Rights for Women
● Alice Walker / In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: The Creativity of Black Women in the South
● The Combahee River Collective / A Black Feminist Statement (*)
● Audre Lorde / The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action
● Audre Lorde / Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism
● African American Women for Reproductive Freedom / We Remember: African American Women Are for Reproductive Freedom (*)
● bell hooks / Coming to Class Consciousness [from "Where We Stand"]
● Barack Obama / A More Perfect Union (online)
● Michelle Alexander / from "The New Jim Crow"
● Adilifu Nama / from "Super Black: American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes"
● Alisha Knight / from “To Aid in Everyway Possible in Uplifting the Colored People of America”: Hopkins’s Revisionary Definition of African American Success
● Bettina Love / from Hip Hop’s Li’l Sistas Speak: Negotiating Hip Hop Identities and Politics in the New South
● Darnell L. Moore / Black, LGBT, American: A Search for Sanctuaries
● Ta-Nehisi Coates / The Case for Reparations
● Ta-Nehisi Coates / from The First White President
● Roxane Gay / The Politics of Respectability
● Claudia Rankine / from "Citizen: An American Lyric"
● Bryan Stevenson / from "Just Mercy"
● Nikole Hannah-Jones / School Segregation: The Continuing Tragedy of Ferguson
● Dawn Marie Dow / The Deadly Challenges of Raising African American Boys: Navigating the Controlling Image of the “Thug”
● Steven W. Thrasher / "Moonlight" Portrays Black Gay Life in Its Joy, Sadness and Complexity (*)
● Mitch Landrieu / Truth: Remarks on the Removal of Confederate Monuments in New Orleans
● Cameron Glover / No, Black-Only Safe Spaces Are Not Racist
● Zadie Smith / Getting In and Out: Who Owns Black Pain?
● Jonathan Capehart / Taking a Knee with Colin Kaepernick and Standing with Stephen Curry against Trump
● Shanita Hubbard / Russell Simmons, R. Kelly, and Why Black Women Can’t Say #MeToo
● Carvell Wallace / Why "Black Panther" Is a Defining Moment for Black America
● Lexi Pandell / How "RuPaul's Drag Race" Fueled Pop Culture's Dominant Slang Engine (*)
● Elijah C. Watson / The Origin of Woke: How the Death of Woke Led to the Birth of Cancel Culture (*)
● Jesmyn Ward / Witness and Repair (*)
● Imani Perry / Racism Is Terrible. Blackness Is Not (*)
● Ibram X. Kendi / The American Nightmare (*)
● Natasha N. Jones and Miriam F. Williams / The Just Use of Imagination: A Call to Action (*)
● Bertrand Cooper / from "Who Actually Gets to Create Black Pop Culture?" (*)
● Farah Jasmine Griffin / from "Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature" (*)
● Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor / The Defeat of Identity Politics (*)
● Lise Funderburg / For These Families, H.B.C.U.s Aren't Just an Option. They're a Tradition (*)
● Damon Young / Soup Is So Much More Than Food (*)
● Omnia Saed / Black Americans Are Leading a Vegan Movement (*)
● John McWhorter / Why Racial Discussions Should Also Focus on Progress (*)
Biographical Notes
Permissions Acknowledgments
Index
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Item Number
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A0620
Black in America: A Broadview Topics Reader
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