The Black Box: Writing the Race

The Black Box: Writing the Race"Henry Louis Gates is a national treasure. Here, he returns with an intellectual and at times deeply personal meditation on the hard fought evolution and the very meaning of African American identity, calling upon our country to transcend its manufactured divisions." Isabel Wilkerson, author of The Warmth of Other Suns and Caste "This is a literary history of Black America, but it is also an argument that African American history is inextricable from

Even when we lose it all

and drowning in credit card debt after losing her job during the pandemic

liberating

Riley celebrates the tremendous courage and resilience of the revolutionaries

That means revealing her perspective on performative allyship

social justice activism

By returning equity to a dispossessed people

an exhausting job at a nonprofit

and easygoing nature

and criminalize Black nationalist organizations and their leaders

Vuong's sincerity and candor

and "a balm for our democracy" (Reverend Al Sharpton)