American Blackness

Bernard Grenway is associate adjunct professor at the University of Maryland Global Campus and professor of business at the American National University.

• Chapter 1Little Black Boy, Big White Suburbia Chapter 2Six Black Boys in a Room Chapter 3Out-Black Me: The Unwinnable Game of Black Male SuccessChapter 4You Love Who You Love, Race NotwithstandingChapter 5The Truth about Blackness: Navigating Free Black WillChapter 6Ink Black and Rail ThinChapter 7Dubois Talks about That TwonessChapter 8Lessons of a Mixed-Race Family: You Can’t Have It Both WaysChapter 9For Those Who Overlook What Really HappenedChapter 10Racial Reality Intelligence: The Truth Will Set America FreeChapter 11That Ceremonial Covering That is MeChapter 12Afroprovidential Redirection: That Force That Steps into the GapChapter 13An Early Discernment: Racial CategorizationChapter 14Transformation: A Discussion of Displaced AdulationChapter 15Black the Way I Want to BeChapter 16The Learning of Racial Mythologies and the DNA Conundrum: Are You Sure You’re White?Chapter 17The Employee Paradox: Respecting the Psychology of Black WorkmanshipChapter 18The Ascension of Desires Continuum: What Maslow Forgot to Tell You about Black Working PeopleChapter 19America’s Dissociation Identity Disorder: Fearing the Blackness of Obama Part IChapter 20America’s Dissociation Identity Disorder: Fearing the Blackness of Obama Part II: Trapped in the Throes of White NarcissismChapter 21A Morning on Poplar GroveChapter 22My Visceral Heartbeat: The Hip-Hop Side of MeAbout the Author