BLACK ON BLACK

A piercing collection of essays on racial tension in America and the ongoing fight for visibility, change, and lasting hope.

In Daniel Black's BLACK ON BLACK, the celebrated novelist's collected essays celebrate the resilience, fortitude, and survival of black people in a land where their body is always on display. This collection is testament that hope may be slow in coming, but it does come, and when it does, it delivers beyond the imagination. This book also asks hard questions about the future of the black community and how far its people are willing to go for liberty. From a piece about the role of HBCUs in the present moment to an investigation of the use of African mythology in the film Harriet, this is cultural criticism at its finest, open-hearted and yearning, finding hope that indeed, a change may be coming. Daniel Black is an author and professor of African American studies and English at Clark Atlanta University. His books include The Coming, Perfect Peace and They Tell Me of a Home. He is the winner of the Distinguished Writer Award from the Middle- Atlantic Writer's Association and has been nominated for the Townsend Prize for Fiction, the Ernest J. Gaines Award,and the Georgia Author of the Year Award. He was raised in Blackwell, Arkansas, and lives in Atlanta, Georgia.