Best African American essays, 2009 / Gerald Early, series editor ; Debra J. Dickerson, guest editor.
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New York :
Bantam Books,
2009.
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| Edition: | Bantam hardcover and trade pbk. eds. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Gerald Early
- Introduction / by Debra J. Dickerson
- Friends, family : Fired: can a friendship really end for no good reason? / by Emily Bernard
- Gray shawl / by Walter Mosley
- Real food / by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Entertainment, sports, the arts : Hip-hop planet / by James McBride
- Writers like me / by Martha Southgate
- Dances with daffodils / by Jamaica Kincaid
- The coincidental cousins: a night out with artist Kara Walker / by James Hannaham
- Music: bodies in pain / by Mark Anthony Neal
- When Tyra met Naomi: race, fashion, and rivalry / by Hawa Allan
- Dancing in the dark: race, sex, the South, and exploitative cinema / by Gerald Early
- Modern-day mammy? / by Jill Nelson
- Broken dreams / by Michael A. Gonzales. Sciences, technology, education : None of the above: what I.Q. doesn't tell you about race / by Malcolm Gladwell
- Driving / by Kenneth A. McClane
- Part I: I had a dream / by Bill Maxwell
- Part II: A dream lay dying / by Bill Maxwell
- Part III: The once and future promise / by Bill Maxwell. Gay: Get out of my closet: can you be white and "On the down low"? / by Benoit Denizet-Lewis
- Girls to men: young lesbians in Brooklyn find that a thug's life gets them more women / by Chloé A. Hilliard. Internationally black: A slow emancipation / by Kwame Anthony Appiah
- Searching for Zion / by Emily Raboteau
- Last thoughts of an Iraq "embed" / by Brian Palmer
- Stop trying to "save" Africa / by Uzodinma Iweala
- We are Americans / by Jerald Walker. Activism/Politcal thought: Jena, O.J. and the jailing of black America / by Orlando Patterson
- One nation-- under God? / by Barack Obama
- Americans without Americanness: Is our nation nothing more than an address? / by John McWhorter
- Barack Obama / by Michael Eric Dyson
- Standing up for "bad" words / by Stephane Dunn
- Debunking "driving while black" myth / by Thomas Sowell
- Goodbye to all that: Why Obama matters / by Andrew Sullivan
- The high ground / by Stanley Crouch.