A group of youngish writers and artists and performers is trying to orient blackness in the 21st century, to situate it both personally and politically. In very different works of widely varying quality and ambition, people as diverse as Michele Norris, Lenny Kravitz, Tour?, Colson Whitehead, Keegan Michael Key, Jordan Peele, Lydia R. Diamond, Lynn Nottage, and Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts are inspecting themselves and, by extension, this country and its myths. Taken as a group, what's remarkable about all of these projects (books, plays, records, TV shows) is their serenity?their searching nature. None of them is explicitly about the president, but, for better and for worse, the Obama era seems to have amplified an alternative to black anger: black calm, black rationality, black "I heard you call me The Food Stamp President and you know you're wrong, but I've got more important shit to do with my day."
Source: http://feeds.slate.com/click.phdo?i=109d484ae28ef2090107709b5c871f4b
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