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Black Talk, Blue Thoughts, and Walking the Color Line
Author(s): Erin Aubry Kaplan (Author), Michael Eric Dyson (Contributor)
- Publisher: Northeastern University Press
- Publication Date: 10 Nov. 2011
- Language: English
- Print length: 304 pages
- ISBN-10: 1555537545
- ISBN-13: 9781555537548
Book Description
Los Angeles has had a ringside seat during the long last century of racial struggle in America. The bouts have been over money and jobs and police brutality, over politics and poetry and rap and basketball. Minimizing blackness itself has been touted as the logical and ideal solution to the struggle, but in Black Talk, Blue Thoughts, and Walking the Color Line Erin Aubry Kaplan begs to differ. With eloquence, wit, and high prose style she crafts a series of compelling arguments against black eclipse. Here are thirty-three insightful and wide-ranging pieces of literary, cultural, political, and personal reporting on the contemporary black American experience. Drawn from the Los Angeles Times, LA Weekly, Salon.com, and elsewhere, this collection also features major new articles on President Barack Obama, black and Hispanic conflicts, and clinical depression. In each, Kaplan argues with meticulous observation, razor-sharp intelligence, and sparkling prose against the trend of black erasure, and for the expansion of horizons of the black American story.
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From the Publisher
Erin Aubry Kaplan has been a journalist covering black issues for twenty-five years, including for LA Weekly and the Los Angeles Times. She is the recipient of a PEN Center West award for literary journalism and is the author of Black Talk, Blue Thoughts, and Walking the Color Line.
About the Author
Erin Aubry Kaplan has been a journalist covering black issues for twenty-five years, including for LA Weekly and the Los Angeles Times. She is the recipient of a PEN Center West award for literary journalism and is the author of Black Talk, Blue Thoughts, and Walking the Color Line.
