The Cycle co-host Touré’s book “Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness? What It Means To Be Black Now” was released in its paperback version today. Be sure to grab a copy at your local bookstore and let us know what you think.
Below find a conversation with Touré about his book “Who’s Afraid of Post Blackness? What It Means To Be Black Now.”
What is the concept of post-Blackness? Post-Blackness is about broadening Black identity into infinity. The idea that Blackness is anything you want it to be. There’s no way to narrow Blackness. People nowadays are rooted in but confined by Blackness. It has nothing to do with post-racialism which is naïve and psychologically impossible. In the Post-Black era people are allowed to be Black however they want to be. Skip Gates says if there are 40 million Black people there’s 40 million ways of being Black. That’s what I’m talking about.









