Black genius : essays on an American legacy
(2025)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
NEW 920.009296/JOHNSON,T

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
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Details

PUBLISHED
[New York, New York] : Dutton Books, [2025]
©2025
DESCRIPTION

xxiii, 289 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9780593186473, 0593186478 :, 0593186478, 9780593186473
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Your best bet is All-Negro Comics! (graphic novels and Black culture) -- Streemal (navigating America's education) -- Live right, do right, fight like hell (family and legacy) -- The 5th Dimension (celebration in America's face) -- What doesn't kill you only mutates and tries again (performance in the streets) -- Agitate! Agitate! (Black paranoia™ and surveillance) -- The branch that grew back (communities and neighborhood transformation) -- Vimeo killed the internet star (Black folks in the digital age) -- The Imagined World (the future Black world)

"A powerful read examining the lack of opportunity given to Black Americans due to structural racism, and how forgotten historical figures and the author's own family found a way to succeed despite the obstacles"-- Provided by publisher

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