Free at Last?: Black America in the Twenty-first Century - Tapa blanda

"Free at Last? accomplishes the heroic task of being interdisciplinary, integrated, and innovative. Battle, Bennett, and Lemelle bring together a diverse group of scholars across disciplines, locales, methods, and career stages to produce a comprehensive volume that goes beyond the important, but expected, topics of class and gender, to include analyses of sexuality, interracial relationships, urban politics, health, and protest. This is truly a breakthrough in our conceptualization of the black agenda.""--Mary Pattillo, Associate Professor of Sociology and African American Studies, Northwestern University" -Free at Last? accomplishes the heroic task of being interdisciplinary, integrated, and innovative. Battle, Bennett, and Lemelle bring together a diverse group of scholars across disciplines, locales, methods, and career stages to produce a comprehensive volume that goes beyond the important, but expected, topics of class and gender, to include analyses of sexuality, interracial relationships, urban politics, health, and protest. This is truly a breakthrough in our conceptualization of the black agenda.---Mary Pattillo, Associate Professor of Sociology and African American Studies, Northwestern University "Free at Last? accomplishes the heroic task of being interdisciplinary, integrated, and innovative. Battle, Bennett, and Lemelle bring together a diverse group of scholars across disciplines, locales, methods, and career stages to produce a comprehensive volume that goes beyond the important, but expected, topics of class and gender, to include analyses of sexuality, interracial relationships, urban politics, health, and protest. This is truly a breakthrough in our conceptualization of the black agenda."--Mary Pattillo, Associate Professor of Sociology and African American Studies, Northwestern University "Free at Last? accomplishes the heroic task of being interdisciplinary, integrated, and innovative. Battle, Bennett, and Lemelle bring together a diverse group of scholars across disciplines, locales, methods, and career stages to produce a comprehensive volume that goes beyond the important, but expected, topics of class and gender, to include analyses of sexuality, interracial relationships, urban politics, health, and protest. This is truly a breakthrough in our conceptualization of the black agenda."--Mary Pattillo, Associate Professor of Sociology and African American Studies, Northwestern University

As this volume indicates, the issues facing black America are diverse, and the tools needed to understand these phenomena cross disciplinary boundaries. In this anthology, the authors address a wide range of topics including race, gender, class, sexual orientation, globalism, migration, health, politics, culture, and urban issues-from a diversity of disciplinary perspectives.