The matter of Black lives : writing from the New Yorker (New Yorker (New York NY : 1925))
Summary
Bringing together reporting, profiles, memoir and criticism from The New Yorker to present a bold and complex portrait of black life in America, told through stories of private triumphs and national tragedies, political vision, and artistic inspiration throughout history. Full description
- Foreword /
- Jelani Cobb
- Part I. Reflections:
- Letter from a region in my mind /
- James Baldwin
- The color fetish /
- Toni Morrison
- Black like them /
- Malcolm Gladwell
- Barack X /
- Jelani Cobb
- Now is the time to talk about what we are actually talking about /
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- The color of injustice /
- Kelefa Sanneh
- Part II. Personal histories.
- Quilts /
- Andrea Lee
- Putting myself together /
- Jamaica Kincaid
- American inferno /
- Danielle Allen
- The yellow house /
- Sarah Broom
- Test case /
- Vinson Cunningham
- Part III. The political scene:
- Reaching for the moon /
- Jervis Anderson
- Saint Pauli /
- Kathryn Schulz
- Letter from Jackson /
- Calvin Trillin
- Letter from Selma /
- Renata Adler
- The charmer /
- Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
- Mourning for whiteness /
- Toni Morrison
- The southern strategist /
- Jelani Cobb
- Part IV. Life and letters:
- Phillis Wheatley on trial /
- Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
- A society of one /
- Claudia Roth Pierpont
- Hughes at Columbia /
- Charlayne Hunter-Gault
- King of cats / Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
- Ghosts in the house /
- Hilton Als
- Secret histories /
- Alexis Okeowo
- Part V. Onward and upward with the arts:
- Voice of the century /
- Alex Ross
- The colossus /
- Stanley Crouch
- American untouchable /
- Emily Nussbaum
- Brother from another mother /
- Zadie Smith
- Radical alienation /
- Calvin Tompkins
- The shadow act /
- Hilton Als
- Gettin' paid /
- Kelefa Sanneh
- The mask of metal-face doom /
- Ta-Nehisi Coates
- The autofictions of Kendrick Lamar /
- Doreen St. Félix
- Part VI. Annals of the law:
- Opera in Greenville /
- Rebecca West
- Black bodies in motion and in pain /
- Edwidge Danticat
- A darker presence /
- Vinson Cunningham
- Before the law /
- Jennifer Gonnerman
- The forgotten ones /
- Rachel Aviv
- The color of blood /
- Calvin Trillin
- Part VII. The uprising and after:
- The matter of Black lives /
- Jelani Cobb
- The uprising /
- Luke Mogelson
- The riot report /
- Jill Lepore
- How do we change America? /
- Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
- The Trayvon generation /
- Elizabeth Alexander
- Homecoming /
- Hilton Als.