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DESCRIPTION:Jeff Chang & Rebecca Solnit\n\ndiscussing\n\nWe Gon' Be Alright\nNotes on 
 Race and Resegregation\n\nfrom Picador Press\n\nIn these provocative, 
 powerful essays acclaimed writer/journalist Jeff Chang (Can't Stop Won't 
 Stop, Who We Be) takes an incisive and wide-ranging look at the recent 
 tragedies and widespread protests that have shaken the country. Through 
 deep reporting with key activists and thinkers, passionately personal 
 writing, and distinguished cultural criticism, We Gon' Be Alright links 
 #BlackLivesMatter to #OscarsSoWhite, Ferguson to Washington D.C., the Great 
 Migration to resurgent nativism. Chang explores the rise and fall of the 
 idea of "diversity," the roots of student protest, changing ideas about 
 Asian Americanness, and the impact of a century of racial separation in 
 housing. He argues that resegregation is the unexamined condition of our 
 time, the undoing of which is key to moving the nation forward to racial 
 justice and cultural equity.\n\nJEFF CHANG is the author of Can't Stop 
 Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation and Who We Be: A Cultural 
 History of Race in Post–Civil Rights America. He has been a USA Ford 
 Fellow in Literature and the winner of the American Book Award and the 
 Asian American Literary Award. He is the executive director of the 
 Institute for Diversity in the Arts at Stanford University. Visit: 
 http://cantstopwontstop.com/\n\nPraise for We Gon' Be Alright:\n\n"When 
 absorbed individually, the author's incisive essays will educate and inform 
 readers. Collectively, Chang creates a chain-linked manifesto arguing for 
 an end to racially charged violence and discrimination and urging global 
 open-mindedness to the struggle of the oppressed. … A compelling and 
 intellectually thought-provoking exploration of the quagmire of race 
 relations."—Kirkus Reviews (starred)\n\n"With simple, elegant prose 
 coupled with remarkable scholarship, Jeff Chang’s We Gon' Be Alright, 
 moves us beyond autobiography into an illuminated landscape of penetrating 
 facts and underlining unavoidable truths. In these pages, one learns the 
 meaning and devastating effects of resegregation, inequity, and the systems 
 of power that maintain them. Connecting the dots from federal housing 
 policies of the 1960's and the sparks of Ferguson to the political rise of 
 Donald Trump and the bittersweet sorrow of Beyoncé’s Lemonade, We Gon' 
 Be Alright captures the crisis of this historical moment even as it propels 
 us toward action for a future we can only imagine. It’s been a long while 
 since 'just the facts, please' was a real page-turner. For anyone 
 interested in the realities shaping the cultural landscape, read it and 
 share it. The clarity of vision is unparalleled. Chang has truly nailed 
 it!"—Carrie Mae Weems, visual artist\n\n"Race has been fraught since its 
 invention; this is to be expected of an enduring fiction that draws real 
 blood. When it comes to navigating the minefields of race—its myths and 
 material consequences, its currents and contradictions—Jeff Chang is a 
 maestro. With eloquence and urgency, We Gon’ Be Alright reveals a country 
 whose deepening racial oppression and inequality is shrouded by myths of 
 colorblindness and postracial triumphalism. Diversity trumps equity, racial 
 innocence trumps history, gentrification trumps resegregation, performance 
 trumps power, and a Trump America trumps any possibility of a liberated 
 America. But reversing course, Chang tells us, requires truth and 
 reconciliation, struggle and transfiguration, and a movement governed by 
 love and full of grace."—Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Thelonious Monk: 
 The Life and Times of an American Original\n\n"There is no more fitting 
 writer to chronicle an unprecedented moment in American history than Jeff 
 Chang. We Gon’ Be Alright is a seminal work about now, about who we are 
 and who we are becoming." —Jose Antonio Vargas, Founder and CEO of Define 
 American\n\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/09/06/18790903.php
SUMMARY:Jeff Chang
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore,\n261 Columbus Ave,\nSan Francisco, CA
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/09/06/18790903.php
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