{"id":59534,"date":"2020-02-14T16:06:43","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T16:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59534"},"modified":"2020-02-14T16:09:50","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T16:09:50","slug":"keepin-it-real-essays-on-race-in-contemporary-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=59534","title":{"rendered":"Keepin\u2019 It Real: Essays on Race in Contemporary America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.press.uchicago.edu\/ucp\/books\/book\/distributed\/K\/bo40060337.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Keepin\u2019 It Real: Essays on Race in Contemporary America<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.press.uchicago.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">University of Chicago Press<\/a><br \/>\n2019-10-25<br \/>\n140 pages<br \/>\n6 x 0.7 x 9 inches<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN: 9781789380507<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bleachbred\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Elwood David Watson<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of History, African American Studies, and Gender Studies<br \/>\n<em>East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.press.uchicago.edu\/ucp\/books\/book\/distributed\/K\/bo40060337.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tmm.chicagodistributioncenter.com\/IsbnImages\/9781789380507.jpg\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The past decade has been one of the most racially turbulent periods in the modern era, as the complicated breakthrough of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Presidency_of_Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Obama presidency<\/a> gave way to the racially charged campaigning and eventual governing of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Donald_Trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a>. <em>Keepin\u2019 It Real<\/em> presents a wide-ranging group of essays that take on key aspects of the current landscape surrounding racial issues in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">America<\/a>, including the place of the Obamas, the rise of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alt-right\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">alt-right<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/White_nationalism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">White nationalism<\/a>, Donald Trump, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Colin_Kaepernick\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Colin Kaepernick<\/a> and the backlash against his protests, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Black_Lives_Matter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Black Lives Matter<\/a>, sexual politics in the black community, and much more.<\/p>\n<p>America\u2019s racial problems aren\u2019t going away any time soon. <em>Keepin\u2019 It Real<\/em> will serve as a marker of the arguments we\u2019re having right now, and an argument for the changes we need to make to become the better nation we\u2019ve long imagined ourselves to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Keepin\u2019 It Real&#8221; presents a wide-ranging group of essays that take on key aspects of the current landscape surrounding racial issues in America, including the place of the Obamas, the rise of the alt-right and White nationalism, Donald Trump, Colin Kaepernick and the backlash against his protests, Black Lives Matter, sexual politics in the black community, and much more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,11,8,17,26,23674,20],"tags":[24878,21057,30767,1470],"class_list":["post-59534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-books","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-politics","category-social-justice","category-usa","tag-colin-kaepernick","tag-donald-trump","tag-elwood-david-watson","tag-university-of-chicago-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59534","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=59534"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59536,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59534\/revisions\/59536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}