Art of the Black Essay

<em>The Art of the Black Essay</em> unveils the power of the African American essay to bring about a meditative shift in the minds of readers to catapult them beyond racial ideology - by immersing them in it - and to elicit in them ultimately democratic change. This title outlines the specific tools of the trade literary techniques through which the democratization process works: the uncanny meditative moment of transcendency. This title also describes a psychological journey experienced by the essayist him/herself. Essay writing or life-writing is the vehicle to release the pull of ideology - the root of the hierarchy of race idea. In this book the author makes a clear distinction between race as biology and race as ideology in order to align race with the culture values traditions and art of a people. <em>The Art of the</em> <em>Black Essay</em> shows how African American essayists have transcended the pull of two cultural identities and achieved democratic change.