Teaching Black Studies, I find that students are quick to label a black person who has grown up in a predominantly white setting a...nd attended similar schools as "not black enough." ...Our concept of black experience has been too narrow and constricting.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In America, the traditional routes to black identity have hardly been normal. Suicide (disappearance by imitation, or willed extin...ction), violence (hysterical religiosity, crime, armed revolt), and exemplary moral courage; none of these is normal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Body and soul, Black America reveals the extreme questions of contemporary life, questions of freedom and identity: How can I be w...ho I am?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the vi...olated and the deprived.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We live in a highly industrialized society and every member of the Black nation must be as academically and technologically develo...ped as possible. To wage a revolution, we need competent teachers, doctors, nurses, electronics experts, chemists, biologists, physicists, political scientists, and so on and so forth. Black women sitting at home reading bedtime stories to their children are just not going to make it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »