{"id":38816,"date":"2014-12-13T02:48:37","date_gmt":"2014-12-13T02:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=38816"},"modified":"2017-01-31T02:21:51","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T02:21:51","slug":"who-we-be-the-colorization-of-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=38816","title":{"rendered":"Who We Be: The Colorization of America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/us.macmillan.com\/books\/9780312571290\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Who We Be: The Colorization of America<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>St. Martin&#8217;s Press (an imprint of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/us.macmillan.com\" target=\"_blank\">Macmillan<\/a>)<br \/>\nOctober 2014<br \/>\n416 pages<br \/>\n7.81 x 9.33 inches<br \/>\nHardcover ISBN: 9780312571290; ISBN10: 0312571291<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jeffchang.net\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Jeff Chang<\/strong><\/a>, Executive Director<br \/>\nInstitute for Diversity in the Arts<br \/>\n<em>Stanford University, Palo Alto, California<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/us.macmillan.com\/books\/9780312571290\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.macmillan.com\/folio-assets\/macmillan_us_frontbookcovers_1000H\/9780312571290.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Race. A four-letter word. The greatest social divide in American life, a half-century ago and today.During that time, the U.S. has seen the most dramatic demographic and cultural shifts in its history, what can be called the colorization of America. But the same nation that elected its first Black president on a wave of hope\u2014another four-letter word\u2014is still plunged into endless culture wars. How do Americans see race now? How has that changed\u2014and not changed\u2014over the half-century? After eras framed by words like &#8220;multicultural&#8221; and &#8220;post-racial,&#8221; do we see each other any more clearly? <em>Who We Be<\/em> remixes comic strips and contemporary art, campus protests and corporate marketing campaigns, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr.\" target=\"_blank\">Martin Luther King, Jr.<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Trayvon_Martin\" target=\"_blank\">Trayvon Martin<\/a> into a powerful, unusual, and timely cultural history of the idea of racial progress. In this follow-up to the award-winning classic <a href=\"http:\/\/cantstopwontstop.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Can\u2019t Stop Won\u2019t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation<\/em><\/a>, Jeff Chang brings fresh energy, style, and sweep to the essential American story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who We Be: The Colorization of America St. Martin&#8217;s Press (an imprint of\u00a0Macmillan) October 2014 416 pages 7.81 x 9.33 inches Hardcover ISBN: 9780312571290; ISBN10: 0312571291 Jeff Chang, Executive Director Institute for Diversity in the Arts Stanford University, Palo Alto, California Race. A four-letter word. The greatest social divide in American life, a half-century ago [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8413,17,20],"tags":[18718,514,18717],"class_list":["post-38816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-communications","category-monographs","category-usa","tag-jeff-chang","tag-macmillan","tag-st-martins-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44675,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38816\/revisions\/44675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}