Race and Resistance: African-Americans in the Twenty-First Century (Race and Resistance, 3) [Paperback]

Herb Boyd (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1, 2002 | ISBN-10: 0896086526 | ISBN-13: 978-0896086524

In Race and Resistance: African-Americans in the Twenty-First Century, leading African-American scholars and activists discuss the state of Black America today and the prospects for achieving full civil rights and equality.

This broad, inclusive anthology makes a vital contribution to our understanding of racism and how it can be overcome. Contributors include Abdul Akalimat on "e-black studies;" Dan Aldridge on spirituality and activism; Amiri Baraka on wisdom and cultural expression; Cathy Cohen on the continuing impact of AIDS in the African-American community; Ron Daniels on race and globalization; Angela Davis on the anti-enforcement violence movement; Joy James on black feminism; Johnita Scott on the history of the reparations movement in the U.S.; Charles Simmons on environmental justice; and Alice Tait on the media.

Herb Boyd is national editor of The Black World Today, a popular internet news publication. He is also the author of Autobiography of a People; Brotherman: The Odyseey of Black Men in America; Black Panthers for Beginners; and African History for Beginners. He teaches at the College of New Rochelle.

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

Eighteen leading African American scholars and activists, including Amiri Baraka, Angela Davis, Ron Daniels, and bell hooks, discuss the state of black America today and the prospects for achieving full equality. Topics range from hip-hop to reparations to the labor movement.
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About the Author

Herb Boyd is national editor of The Black World Today, a popular internet news publication. He is the author of Autobiography of a People (Doubleday, FEB 2000); Brotherman: The Odyseey of Black Men in America (Ballantine, 1996); and Black Panthers for Beginners and African History for Beginners (Writers & Readers, 1995 & 1991). He teaches at the College of New Rochelle.

Product Details

• Paperback: 250 pages
• Publisher: South End Press (July 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0896086526
• ISBN-13: 978-0896086524
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,542,704 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Herb Boyd is a journalist, activist, teacher, and has authored or edited 22 books, including his most recent one, Civil Rights: Yesterday & Today. His book Baldwin's Harlem, a biography of James Baldwin, was a finalist for a 2009 NAACP Image Award. In 1995, with Robert Allen, he was a recipient of an American Book Award for Brotherman--The Odyssey of Black Men in America, an anthology. We Shall Overcome, a media-fusion book with narration by the late Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee, is used in classrooms all over the world, as is his Autobiography of a People and The Harlem Reader. His articles can be found in such publications as The Black Scholar, The Final Call, the Amsterdam News, Cineaste, Downbeat, and The Network Journal, among others.
Among the highlights of his remarkable journalistic career was an invitation to fly on Air Force One with President Obama, whom he has interviewed on several occasions.
Over the last decade or so, Boyd has scripted several documentaries, including several with Keith Beauchamp on cold cases of martyrs from the civil rights era that were shown on Biography Channel and TV One. With filmmaker Eddie Harris, he was the writer on three documentaries--Trek to the Holy Land, Cri de Coeur (Cry from the Heart), and Slap the Donkey, that tracks the Rev. Al Sharpton's presidential bid in 2004. The latter film was recently selected to be screened at the Montreal Film Festival in 2010. Boyd is also a frequent guest on national television and radio shows, as well as a keynote speaker at many functions sponsored by noted community and college organizations, where his commentaries on African American culture and politics have earned him an increasingly large audience and popularity. For more than forty years, he has taught at institutions of higher learning. Currently, he teaches at the College of New Rochelle in the Bronx and at City College New York, and is also a national and international correspondent for Free Speech TV.org, a media company that specializes in Internet television.