The New Black: What Has Changed - and What Has Not - with Race in America

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The election Barack Obama ushered in a litany of controversial perspectives about the contemporary state of race relations. Through insightful essays, The New Black challenges contemporary images of black families, defies accepted notions of what black' means, transforms ideas about political power of people of colour and challenges the boundaries of debates over race. In this incisive volume, celebrated and original thinkers re-examine the familiar framework of the Civil Rights Movement with an eye to overhauling the world's understanding of the politics of race.'

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"Teeming with critically important reflections on the state of race in America. . . . Whether you agree or disagree with the ideas herein, one thing is for certain: these perspectives ought not be ignored."
Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow

"The New Black is an indispensable guide to thinking ones way through the peculiar institutional complexities of our supposedly postracial moment: the tensions among racial progress in some quarters, fierce backlash in others, the shifting demographics of ethnicity, the subtleties of denial and unconscious bias, and the reconfigured challenge of civil rights for all Americans."
Patricia J. Williams, columnist at The Nation and James L. Dohr Professor of Law, Columbia University

"These insightful essays refocus our attention on race, helping to dissipate the willed delusion of a postracial society. A must-read, and a fun read."
Ian Haney Lopez, John H. Boalt Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley

"The contributors to this book raise significant questions about the continued relevance of the civil rights ideal and argue persuasively that new ideas are necessary, advancing an important discussion of the shape of race relations beyond the Obama presidency."
Mary Frances Berry, Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania and former chair of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights

"An important contribution. . . . As we transform into a majority-minority nation, The New Black gives us thought-provoking inquiries and frameworks that reflect the racial realities of Americans."
Deepa Iyer, executive director, South Asian Americans Leading Together

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Kenneth W. Mack is a law professor at Harvard University and the author of Representing the Race. He has written for the Boston Globe, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and the Baltimore Sun and has appeared on CNN, Anderson Cooper 360, and PBSs Frontline. He lives in Newton, Massachusetts. Guy-Uriel Charles is a law professor at Duke University and the founding director of the Duke Center on Law, Race, and Politics. He lives in Durham, North Carolina.