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What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker : A Memoir in Essays, CD/Spoken Word ...
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- ISBN
- 9781982610661
- Publication Year
- 2019
- Format
- Compact Disc
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker : a Memoir in Essays
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Canada, The Limited
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Literary Collections, Social Science
- Topic
- Cultural Heritage, Personal Memoirs, General, Essays, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
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From the cofounder of VerySmartBrothas.com, and one of the most read writers on race and culture at work today, a provocative and humorous memoir-in-essays that explores the ever-shifting definitions of what it means to be Black (and male) in America. For Damon Young, existing while Black is an extreme sport. The act of possessing black skin while searching for space to breathe in America is enough to induce a ceaseless state of angst where questions such as "How should I react here, as a professional black person?" and "Will this white person's potato salad kill me?" are forever relevant. What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker chronicles Young's efforts to survive while battling and making sense of the various neuroses his country has given him. It's a condition that's sometimes stretched to absurd limits, provoking the angst that made him question if he was any good at the "being straight" thing, as if his sexual orientation was something he could practice and get better at, like a crossover dribble move or knitting; creating the farce where, as a teen, he wished for a white person to call him a racial slur just so he could fight him and have a great story about it; and generating the surreality of watching gentrification transform his Pittsburgh neighborhood from predominantly Black to "Portlandia . . . but with Pierogies." And, at its most devastating, it provides him reason to believe that his mother would be alive today if she were white. From one of our most respected cultural observers, What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker is a hilarious and honest debut that is both a celebration of the idiosyncrasies and distinctions of Blackness and a critique of white supremacy and how we define masculinity.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
HarperCollins Canada, The Limited
ISBN-10
1982610662
ISBN-13
9781982610661
eBay Product ID (ePID)
9038702709
Product Key Features
Publication Year
2019
Topic
Cultural Heritage, Personal Memoirs, General, Essays, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Book Title
What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker : a Memoir in Essays
Language
English
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Literary Collections, Social Science
Format
Compact Disc
Dimensions
Item Length
5.7in
Item Width
5.2in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
Young's charm and wit make these essays a pleasure to read; his candid approach makes them memorable., Simultaneously providing racial love for the spectacular idiosyncrasies of blackness and a devastatingly funny critique of racism, Damon is the antidote to what ails this nation., Young delivers a passionate, wryly bittersweet tribute to Black life in majority-white Pittsburgh...A must read.
Dewey Decimal
305.38/896073
Edition Description
Unabridged Edition
Copyright Date
2019
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