The Three Minds of Black America:

Tresconsciousness and the Twenty-First Century

 

1. Growing Up Colored

The composition of the first chapter contains essays solely related to the tresconsciousness of childhood. These essays may include but are not limited to narratives regarding one’s own childhood or one’s experience raising children.

        2. Knowledge of Self

The second chapter contains essays that explore identity and self-determination as it relates to triple consciousness. The essays in this section may explore one’s identity at any age in one’s life.

         3. Second Sex

The third chapter contains essays that relate to the triple consciousness of being a woman, a black woman. Women writers will be included in all sections. Yet, this section will include the women’s whose stories are centered on a gendered experience.

         4. Success Story

This section contains personal narratives that relate to what it means to be successful in the Black community and the divisions that can be drawn amongst family, friends and neighbors due to ideas of “success”.

         5. Music of Black Life

The fifth chapter of The Three Minds contains essays that relate to art and artists.

         6. Black, Too

 This section contains the stories of all peoples of self-acknowledged African-descent including Africans in America, West Indians, Latinos, Native-Americans and people of mixed ancestry who identify as Black or African-American.

         7. Our Parents Legacy

This chapter contains personal narratives in which the author compares their understanding of tresconsciousness to their parent’s understanding, or those who contrast the two.

         8. Tresconsciousness

This section contains all of the extraordinary essays and narratives that reveal an in depth understanding of tresconsciousness as it relates to the author that is so unique the story deserves a section of their own.