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Up-Coming Book: Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/d9d13f43-3695-47b0-808b-26c62e1ec5e6/76D9C61D-559C-4266-8EC3-0880B3C5DB13/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.observer.com/2009/media/tour%C3%A9-writing-book-about-post-blackness-free-press" href="http://www.observer.com/2009/media/tour%C3%A9-writing-book-about-post-blackness-free-press" style="font-size: 11px;">www.observer.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.observer.com/2009/media/tour%C3%A9-writing-book-about-post-blackness-free-press">The book, titled <EM>Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness</EM>, was described in a deal memo posted on <A href="http://www.publishersmarketplace.com">Publishers Lunch</A> as a “treatise” on black identity in the age of Obama, based on interviews with dozens of “black American artists, writers and thinkers.” </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.observer.com/2009/media/tour%C3%A9-writing-book-about-post-blackness-free-press">a “non-fiction narrative in the neighborhood of 300 pages interspersing my ideas and those of all the thinkers discoursing on major issues impinging on the future of blackness.” He declined to name any of his subjects, saying only that they’d be “some of the most brilliant black people in America… some of them famous, some not.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.observer.com/2009/media/tour%C3%A9-writing-book-about-post-blackness-free-press">Post-blackness is about getting beyond the rigid, myopic vision of what is and is not black</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.observer.com/2009/media/tour%C3%A9-writing-book-about-post-blackness-free-press">Blacks are creative in our cultural productions and personal style but frown on being innovative and improvisational with the definition of blackness itself. So any number of small of offenses will have some blacks saying he/she ain't black. This is absurd. We have to broaden our conception of what blackness is.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/76D9C61D-559C-4266-8EC3-0880B3C5DB13/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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