Race and Resistance: African-Americans in the Twenty-First Century

The color line defined American society in the twentieth century Will the same be true for the twenty-first Leading African-American scholars and activists discuss the state of Black America today and the prospects for achieving full civil rights and equality This broad inclusive anthologymdashincluding essays on hip-hop feminism prison reform and reparationsmdashmakes a vital contribution to our understanding of racism and how it can be overcomeContributors include Angela Davis Robert Allen Julianne Malveaux Ron Daniels Amiri Baraka Barbara Smith William Sales Kathleen Cleaver Don Rojas Bill Fletcher Kevin Powell Robert Allen and Alice TaitHerb Boyd is an award-winning journalist and author He is editor of Brotherman The Odyssey of Black Men in America Ballantine which won the American Book Award for non-fiction and the author of Autobiography of a People Doubleday Black Panthers for Beginners Writers amp Readers and African History for Beginners Writers amp Readers He is also national editor of the Black World Today a popular online publicationboxAlso available from South End PressHow Capitalism Underdeveloped Black AmericaTP --- bull CUSABlack Looks Race and RepresentationTP --- bull USAYearning Race Gender and Cultural PoliticsTP --- bull USATalking Back Thinking Feminist Thinking BlackTP --- bull USAThe State of Native AmericaTP --- bull CUSAThe State of Asian AmericaTP --- bull CUSA.