Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness? - Boston Events INSIDER

WHO'S AFRAID OF POST-BLACKNESS?

What it Means to be Black Now

Touré

Foreword by Michael Eric Dyson

THURSDAY ? JANUARY 26 ? 6:00PM

MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY

46 JOY STREET ? BEACON HILL

Meet the author in the newly restored

African Meeting House

RECEPTION FOLLOWS IN ABIEL SMITH SCHOOL

Over the past two decades, Touré has become a force in journalism, TV, pop culture criticism, and the literary world. And now, he's tackling his toughest subject yet. His new book is a fascinating, entertaining, thought-provoking, sobering, angering, and at times laugh-out-loud examination of what it means to be Black in America today. He draws on interviews with over 100 prominent African-Americans from art to politics to journalism to academia - with words from Henry Louis Gates, Jr. to Soledad O'Brien - as well as his own thoughts and experiences.

""...(Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness?) is one of the most

acutely observed accounts of what it is like to be young,

black and middle-class in contemporary America.

Touré inventively draws on a range of evidence - auto¬

biography, music, art, interviews, comedy and popular

social analysis - for a performance carried through with

unsparing honesty...""

- New York Times Book Review, September 2011

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