Ebook: The Trouble with Post-Blackness

This collection of original essays confronts the premise, advanced by black intellectuals, that the Obama administration marked the start of a "post-racial" era in the United States. While the "transcendent" and post-racial black elite declare victory over America's longstanding codes of racial exclusion and racist violence, their evidence relies largely on their own salaries and celebrity. These essays strike at the certainty of those who insist life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are now independent of skin color and race in America.

Scholars, novelists, poets, and journalists revisit the idea of “blackness” and whether it is a concept we can--or should--move beyond.