{"product_id":"shattered-fragments-of-a-black-life-9781952271922","title":"Shattered: Fragments of a Black Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA heartrending and engrossing memoir that challenges narratives of racial progress and postracial America. \u003cbr\u003e \"Every so often, a book comes along that changes the way we see, speak, and think about the world. \u003ci\u003eShattered\u003c\/i\u003e is one of those books.\" --Frank B. Wilderson III, author of \u003ci\u003eAfropessimism\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eIncognegro\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e Told through fragments, facets, shards, slivers, splinters, and absences, \u003ci\u003eShattered\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eShattered\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMatthieu Chapman is assistant professor of theater and head of theater studies at SUNY New Paltz. His writing has been published in \u003ci\u003eHuffington Post\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePithead Chapel\u003c\/i\u003e, among others. He holds degrees in theater and performance theory from San Diego State University, Mary Baldwin University, and University of California San Diego.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"West Virginia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50488047173906,"sku":"9781952271922","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b2d22218-0d17-4775-b2b3-22882b8a8fdd.jpg?v=1730465319","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/shattered-fragments-of-a-black-life-9781952271922","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}