Black Lives, American Love

Black Lives, American Love by Db Maroon

"An eloquent and perceptive series of essays on Black lives in America" -- Kirkus Reviews

In this hard-hitting collection of essays, D.B. Maroon presents a personal biography of America, Blackness, and racial politics with unflinching style, and delivers a relentless truth-telling on some of the country's fiercest debates and most profound challenges.
 
From the birthplace of the Black Lives Matter movement to the murders of unarmed Black people, this essay collection invites readers to ask questions as much as it asks for accountability. Moving through debates on the 1619 Project to the rippling impact of resurgent white nationalism, the golden thread of each essay is the hopeful continuance of the Black community, as well as a call to greater truth as the first step toward reconciliation.
 
Intersectional, personal, and ultimately centered on truth, love, and perseverance, Black Lives, American Love details and tends to the fractures in American culture. It is a meditation on how we can all do more to secure America's vastly beautiful possibilities for all its citizens, rather than a few.

D.B. Maroon is an expert on American culture, an anthropologist, and CEO of an urban research institute.Her essays have been published inThe Themed Space: Locating Culture,Nation, and SelfandSpirited: Affirming the Soul and Black Gay/Lesbian Identity.A committed public scholar, she's appeared in Bustle, Shape, Healthline, and Women's Health. She holds a PhD in anthropology from UC Santa Cruz.

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ISBN 13	9781641609326
ISBN 10	164160932X
Title	Black Lives, American Love
Author	Db Maroon
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Chicago Review Press
Year published	2023-11-07
Number of pages	256
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