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The matter of Black lives writing from the New Yorker

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Bringing together reporting, profiles, memoir and criticism from The New Yorker to present a bold and complex portrait of black life in America, told through stories of private triumphs and national tragedies, political vision, and artistic inspiration throughout history.

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Other Authors: Cobb, Jelani (Editor, writer of foreword.), Remnick, David (Editor), Baldwin, James, 1924-1987, Morrison, Toni, Gladwell, Malcolm, 1963-, Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, 1977-, Sanneh, Kelefa, Lee, Andrea, 1953-, Kincaid, Jamaica, Allen, Danielle S., 1971-, Broom, Sarah M.
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021]
Edition:First edition.
Series:New Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925)
Subjects:
United States > Race relations.
Racism > United States.
African Americans > History.
African Americans > Social conditions.
African Americans > Politics and government.
Essays.
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Jelani Cobb
  • Part I. Reflections: Letter from a region in my mind / James Baldwin
  • The color fetish / Toni Morrison
  • Black like them / Malcolm Gladwell
  • Barack X / Jelani Cobb
  • Now is the time to talk about what we are actually talking about / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • The color of injustice / Kelefa Sanneh
  • Part II. Personal histories. Quilts / Andrea Lee
  • Putting myself together / Jamaica Kincaid
  • American inferno / Danielle Allen
  • The yellow house / Sarah Broom
  • Test case / Vinson Cunningham
  • Part III. The political scene: Reaching for the moon / Jervis Anderson
  • Saint Pauli / Kathryn Schulz
  • Letter from Jackson / Calvin Trillin
  • Letter from Selma / Renata Adler
  • The charmer / Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
  • Mourning for whiteness / Toni Morrison
  • The southern strategist / Jelani Cobb
  • Part IV. Life and letters: Phillis Wheatley on trial / Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
  • A society of one / Claudia Roth Pierpont
  • Hughes at Columbia / Charlayne Hunter-Gault
  • King of cats / Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
  • Ghosts in the house / Hilton Als
  • Secret histories / Alexis Okeowo
  • Part V. Onward and upward with the arts: Voice of the century / Alex Ross
  • The colossus / Stanley Crouch
  • American untouchable / Emily Nussbaum
  • Brother from another mother / Zadie Smith
  • Radical alienation / Calvin Tompkins
  • The shadow act / Hilton Als
  • Gettin' paid / Kelefa Sanneh
  • The mask of metal-face doom / Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • The autofictions of Kendrick Lamar / Doreen St. Félix
  • Part VI. Annals of the law: Opera in Greenville / Rebecca West
  • Black bodies in motion and in pain / Edwidge Danticat
  • A darker presence / Vinson Cunningham
  • Before the law / Jennifer Gonnerman
  • The forgotten ones / Rachel Aviv
  • The color of blood / Calvin Trillin
  • Part VII. The uprising and after: The matter of Black lives / Jelani Cobb
  • The uprising / Luke Mogelson
  • The riot report / Jill Lepore
  • How do we change America? / Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
  • The Trayvon generation / Elizabeth Alexander
  • Homecoming / Hilton Als.

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