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Shattered - Fragments of a Black Life
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Shattered - Fragments of a Black Life
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A heartrending and engrossing memoir that challenges narratives of
racial progress and postracial America. From a distance, Matthieu
Chapman’s life and accomplishments serve as an example of racial
progress in America: the first in his family to go to college, he
earns two master’s degrees and a doctorate and then becomes a
professor of theater. Despite his personal and academic success,
however, the specter of antiblackness continues to haunt his every
moment and interaction. Told through fragments, facets, shards,
slivers, splinters, and absences, Shattered places Chapman’s own
story in dialogue with US history and structural analysis of race
to relay the experience of being very alive in a demonstrably
antiblack society—laying bare the impact of the American way on
black bodies, black psyches, and black lives. From the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to the offices of higher
education, from a Loyal White Knights flyer on his windshield to a
play with black students written by a black playwright, Chapman’s
life story embodies the resistance that occurs, the shattering,
collapsing, and reconfiguring of being that happens in the
collisions between conceptions of blackness. Shattered is a
heartrending and thought-provoking challenge to narratives of
racial progress and postracial America—an important reminder that
systemic antiblack racism affects every black person regardless of
what they achieve in spite of it.
General
Imprint: |
West Virginia University Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
August 2023 |
Authors: |
Matthieu Chapman
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Dimensions: |
210 x 140mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
456 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-952271-92-2 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-952271-92-4 |
Barcode: |
9781952271922 |
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