Sisters of the Desert Sun's Black History Month Choice

Sisters of the Desert Sun chose Toure's What's the Matter with Post Blackness:  What it Means to Be Black Now for February's meeting.  During Black History Month we'll be promoting the 2012 National African American Read-In.  Find out how you can get involved by at:
http://www.ncte.org/action/aari/packetinfo. 

Publisher's Overview:

In the age of Obama, racial attitudes have become more complicated and nuanced than ever before. Inspired by a president who is unlike any Black man ever seen on our national stage, we are searching for new ways of understanding Blackness. In this provocative new book, iconic commentator and journalist TourÉ tackles what it means to be Black in America today.

TourÉ begins by examining the concept of “Post-Blackness,” a term that defines artists who are proud to be Black but don't want to be limited by identity politics and boxed in by race. He soon discovers that the desire to be rooted in but not constrained by Blackness is everywhere. In Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness? he argues that Blackness is infinite, that any identity imaginable is Black, and that all expressions of Blackness are legitimate.  TourÉ delivers a clarion call on race in America and how we can change our perceptions for a better future. Destroying the notion that there is a correct way of being Black, Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness? will change how we perceive race forever.