"I'd seen the Senator speak a few times before my life got caught up, however distantly, with his, but the first time I can remember paying real attention was when he delivered the speech announcing his run for the Presidency. When David first hears the Senator from Illinois speak, he feels deep ambivalence. Intrigued by the Senator's idealistic rhetoric, David also wonders how he'll balance the fervent belief and inevitable compromises it will take...

"A debut collection of poems draws on personal, political, and social histories to address black humanity and ideas of lineage and tradition." --

"In The Denial of Antiblackness, Joao H. Costa Vargas examines how antiblackness affects society as a whole through analyses of recent protests against police killings of black individuals in both the United States and Brazil, as well as the everyday dynamics of incarceration, residential segregation, and poverty. With multisite ethnography ranging from a juvenile prison in Austin, Texas, to grassroots organizing in Los Angeles and Black social movements...

"A collection of essays and personal reflections by a variety of African American contributors, including some major public figures and celebrities, on the topic of black identity in America today"--Provided by the publisher.

"Explores the construct, culture, and material of the "meme" as mapped to Black visual culture from 1900 to present day"--

Veronica Mercier, a sophisticated Caribbean woman teaching and living in Paris, goes to a West African country to complete her search for self-identity. There, she finds herself involved with a black man with ancestors - a cold, calculating minister for the interior and heir to the presidency.