{"product_id":"black-lives-american-love-essays-on-race-and-resilience-9781641609326","title":"Black Lives, American Love: Essays on Race and Resilience","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"An eloquent and perceptive series of essays on Black lives in America\"\u003c\/b\u003e -- \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Intersectional, personal, and ultimately centered on truth, love, and perseverance, \u003ci\u003eBlack Lives, American Love\u003c\/i\u003e details and tends to the fractures in American culture. \u003cb\u003eIt 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eD.B. Maroon \u003c\/b\u003eis an expert on American culture, an anthropologist, and CEO of an urban research institute. Her essays have been published in \u003ci\u003eThe Themed Space: Locating Culture, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eNation, and Self \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eSpirited: Affirming the Soul and Black Gay\/Lesbian Identity\u003c\/i\u003e. A committed public scholar, she's appeared in \u003ci\u003eBustle\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eShape\u003c\/i\u003e, Healthline, and \u003ci\u003eWomen's Health\u003c\/i\u003e. She holds a PhD in anthropology from UC Santa Cruz.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Lawrence Hill Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50630208618770,"sku":"9781641609326","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_88bbac33-8168-4572-890d-86f32788ce79.jpg?v=1732746110","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/black-lives-american-love-essays-on-race-and-resilience-9781641609326","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}