Anthologies of African American Writing

Best African American Essays, 2010

"Best African American Essays, 2010" . Ed. Gerald Early and Randall Kennedy. New York: Ballantine, 2010. xxvii+366 pp.

A more perfect union / Barack Obama -- A deeper Black / Ta-Nehisi Coates -- Obama no / Adolph Reed, Jr. -- Who died and made Tavis king? / Melissa Harris-Lacewell -- What Obama means to the world / Gary Younge -- Finally, a thin president / Colson Whitehead -- Judge Obama on performance alone / Juan Williams -- Obama, the instability of color lines, and the promise of a postethnic future / David A. Hollinger -- What Michelle can teach us / Allison Samuels -- Movin' on up / Margo Jefferson -- The other Obama : Michelle Obama and the politics of candor / Lauren Collins -- Project Trinity : the perilous mission of Obama's church / Kelefa Sanneh -- Rev. Jeremiah Wright isn't the problem / Gary Kamiya -- America's greatest hits / Lolis Eric Elie -- The end of the Black American narrative / Charles Johnson -- In defense of George Bush / Jelani Cobb -- The end of White America? / Hua Hsu -- Amy Winehouse and the Black art of appropriation / Daphne A. Brooks -- This is how we lost to the white man / Ta-Nehisi Coates -- Before grief / Jerald Walker -- The other Black president / Adam Serwer -- Family matters / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- The purrrfect diva : Eartha Kitt had a taste for the best things in life / Wil Haygood -- Miriam Makeba : in troubled times, she was the voice of a country / Wil Haygood -- Isaac Hayes : unshackled by history's chains / Wil Haygood -- Excerpt from Pig candy / Lise Funderburg -- Talking about not talking about race / Patricia J. Williams -- On Black History Month / Eric Holder -- On race, Blacks are cowards, too / Bill Maxwell -- What is the race card? / Richard Thompson Ford -- Creature features : a two-part invention on racial profiling / Gerald Early -- This machine kills fascists / Gerald Early -- Obama victory raises social significance of basketball / Scoop Jackson -- Joe Louis moment / William C. Rhoden -- Still crazy after all these years / L. Jon Wertheim -- Ethical treatment for a quarterback / Phil Taylor -- The fire this time / Rita Dove -- On Rita Dove / Erika Meitner -- Chester Himes : exile & 125th Street / Michael A. Gonzales -- Multiracialism and the social construction of race : the story of Hudgins v. Wrights / Angela Onwuachi-Willig -- The dilemma of the American Negro scholar / John Hope Franklin.

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