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Book SynopsisAmerican Blackness: Navigating the Myth of the Black Monolith focuses on a set of theoretical applications and social narratives that highlight the disparate racial, social, and political perspectives of modern Black Americans. Dr. Grenway uses the text to push back against ideals associated with of the black monolith by examining the many ways in which black Americans struggle to cope with educational, cultural, and socio-economical expectations.
Table of ContentsChapter 1Little Black Boy, Big White Suburbia
Chapter 2Six Black Boys in a Room
Chapter 3Out-Black Me: The Unwinnable Game of Black Male Success
Chapter 4You Love Who You Love, Race Notwithstanding
Chapter 5The Truth about Blackness: Navigating Free Black Will
Chapter 6Ink Black and Rail Thin
Chapter 7Dubois Talks about That Twoness
Chapter 8Lessons of a Mixed-Race Family: You Can’t Have It Both Ways
Chapter 9For Those Who Overlook What Really Happened
Chapter 10Racial Reality Intelligence: The Truth Will Set America Free
Chapter 11That Ceremonial Covering That is Me
Chapter 12Afroprovidential Redirection: That Force That Steps into the Gap
Chapter 13An Early Discernment: Racial Categorization
Chapter 14Transformation: A Discussion of Displaced Adulation
Chapter 15Black the Way I Want to Be
Chapter 16The Learning of Racial Mythologies and the DNA Conundrum: Are You Sure You’re White?
Chapter 17The Employee Paradox: Respecting the Psychology of Black Workmanship
Chapter 18The Ascension of Desires Continuum: What Maslow Forgot to Tell You about Black Working People
Chapter 19America’s Dissociation Identity Disorder: Fearing the Blackness of Obama Part I
Chapter 20America’s Dissociation Identity Disorder: Fearing the Blackness of Obama Part II: Trapped in the Throes of White Narcissism
Chapter 21A Morning on Poplar Grove
Chapter 22My Visceral Heartbeat: The Hip-Hop Side of Me
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