**A provocative and timely collection of essays from a celebrated
cultural critic on race, diversity, and resegregation.
**
The Smartest Book of the Year (The Washington Post)
In these provocative, powerful essays acclaimed writer/journalist Jeff
Chang (Can't Stop Won't Stop, Who We Be) takes an incisive and
wide-ranging look at the recent tragedies and widespread protests that
have shaken the country. Through deep reporting with key activists and
thinkers, passionately personal writing, and distinguished cultural
criticism, We Gon' Be Alright links #BlackLivesMatter to
#OscarsSoWhite, Ferguson to Washington D.C., the Great Migration to
resurgent nativism.
Chang explores the rise and fall of the idea of "diversity," the roots
of student protest, changing ideas about Asian Americanness, and the
impact of a century of racial separation in housing. He argues that
resegregation is the unexamined condition of our time, the undoing of
which is key to moving the nation forward to racial justice and cultural
equity.