Best African American essays, 2010 /
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New York :
One World, Ballantine Books,
[2010]
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Table of Contents:
- A more perfect union / Barack Obama
- A deeper Black / Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Obama no / Adolph Reed, Jr.
- Who died and made Tavis king? / Melissa Harris-Lacewell
- What Obama means to the world / Gary Younge
- Finally, a thin president / Colson Whitehead
- Judge Obama on performance alone / Juan Williams
- Obama, the instability of color lines, and the promise of a postethnic future / David A. Hollinger
- What Michelle can teach us / Allison Samuels
- Movin' on up / Margo Jefferson
- The other Obama : Michelle Obama and the politics of candor / Lauren Collins
- Project Trinity : the perilous mission of Obama's church / Kelefa Sanneh
- Rev. Jeremiah Wright isn't the problem / Gary Kamiya
- America's greatest hits / Lolis Eric Elie
- The end of the Black American narrative / Charles Johnson
- In defense of George Bush / Jelani Cobb
- The end of White America? / Hua Hsu
- Amy Winehouse and the Black art of appropriation / Daphne A. Brooks
- This is how we lost to the white man / Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Before grief / Jerald Walker
- The other Black president / Adam Serwer
- Family matters / Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
- The purrrfect diva : Eartha Kitt had a taste for the best things in life / Wil Haygood
- Miriam Makeba : in troubled times, she was the voice of a country / Wil Haygood
- Isaac Hayes : unshackled by history's chains / Wil Haygood
- Excerpt from Pig candy / Lise Funderburg
- Talking about not talking about race / Patricia J. Williams
- On Black History Month / Eric Holder
- On race, Blacks are cowards, too / Bill Maxwell
- What is the race card? / Richard Thompson Ford
- Creature features : a two-part invention on racial profiling / Gerald Early
- This machine kills fascists / Gerald Early
- Obama victory raises social significance of basketball / Scoop Jackson
- Joe Louis moment / William C. Rhoden
- Still crazy after all these years / L. Jon Wertheim
- Ethical treatment for a quarterback / Phil Taylor
- The fire this time / Rita Dove
- On Rita Dove / Erika Meitner
- Chester Himes : exile & 125th Street / Michael A. Gonzales
- Multiracialism and the social construction of race : the story of Hudgins v.Wrights / Angela Onwuachi-Willig
- The dilemma of the American Negro scholar / John Hope Franklin.