MAM @ Books & Books: Reading Art September 24, 2012

Join MAM's book club for a discussion of "Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness" by Touré with a foreword by Michael Eric Dyson (2011). Touré, a catalog author for the exhibition "Rashid Johnson: Message to our Folks," on view at MAM September 7 to November 4, 2012, is correspondent for MSNBC, author, contributor to Time, Ebony and Rolling Stone as well as the host of Hip Hop Shop and On the Record. In "Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness," Touré examines the constraints of notions of an authentic Black culture and in doing so interviews and looks at the work of a number of contemporary intellectuals, public figures and artists, amongst them Rashid Johnson. Books & Books, 265 Aragon Avenue, Coral Gables, FL 33134. Free to the public. RSVP required to education@miamiartmuseum.org or 305.375.4073.

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