The book, titled Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness, was described in a deal memo posted on Publishers Lunch as a “treatise” on black identity in the age of Obama, based on interviews with dozens of “black American artists, writers and thinkers.” 

a “non-fiction narrative in the neighborhood of 300 pages interspersing my ideas and those of all the thinkers discoursing on major issues impinging on the future of blackness.” He declined to name any of his subjects, saying only that they’d be “some of the most brilliant black people in America… some of them famous, some not.

Post-blackness is about getting beyond the rigid, myopic vision of what is and is not black

Blacks are creative in our cultural productions and personal style but frown on being innovative and improvisational with the definition of blackness itself. So any number of small of offenses will have some blacks saying he/she ain't black. This is absurd. We have to broaden our conception of what blackness is.