Bibliograph

We can't breathe, on black lives, white lies, and the art of survival, Jabari Asim

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We can't breathe, on black lives, white lies, and the art of survival, Jabari Asim

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

We can't breathe

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Jabari Asim

Sub title

on black lives, white lies, and the art of survival

Summary

In We Can’t Breathe, Jabari Asim disrupts what Toni Morrison has exposed as the Master Narrative and replaces it with a story of black survival and persistence through art and community in the face of centuries of racism. In eight wide-ranging and penetrating essays, he explores such topics as the twisted legacy of jokes and falsehoods in black life; the importance of black fathers and community; the significance of black writers and stories; and the beauty and pain of the black body. What emerges is a rich portrait of a community and culture that has resisted, survived, and flourished despite centuries of racism, violence, and trauma. These thought-provoking essays present a different side of American history, one that doesn’t depend on a narrative steeped in oppression but rather reveals black voices telling their own stories

Table Of Contents

Getting it twisted -- The elements of strut -- Shooting negroes -- Color him father -- The seer and the seen : on reading and being -- Brick relics -- The thing itself -- Of love and struggle : the limits of respectability -- Selected bibliography

Target audience

adult

resource.variantTitle

We cannot breatheBlack lives, white lies, and the art of survival

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