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Sto caricando le informazioni... What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays (2019)di Damon Young
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. A wonderfully complex and cathartic book about being a black man in our current American landscape. I think I was more impressed with how verbose and hilarious each essay was. This collection was like therapy in a book for the confused and traumatized black man. I appreciated Young's ability to inject criticism, satire, irony, and experience in each story he told. I don't have a particular favorite essay because I believe readers should evaluate the collection as a whole. I can only say that his voice is needed in a world where blackness is often reduced to some kind of ENVOGUE, FASHIONABLE experience. Young accomplishes the goal of great writing: self-evaluation, evocative thought, critical commentary, and universal points of connection. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Premi e riconoscimentiMenzioni
Biography & Autobiography.
Literary Criticism.
African American Nonfiction.
Nonfiction.
HTML: A Finalist for the NAACP Image Award A Finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Nonfiction A Finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor Longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay An NPR Best Book of the Year A Washington Independent Review of Books Favorite of the Year 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. .Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Quotes: "It was more the type of gratitude that occurs when a seven-year-old nephew draws you a really sweet picture of Rosa Parks slam dunking a football."
"Dad said, "Don't break yourself trying to appease white people. Martin Luther King was killed in a suit"
"If you're poor and Black, America acts like you emerged from the room twenty-seven years old, with four kids, five predicate felonies, and a lit Newport already between your lips. White babies get to be babies. Poor Black people are born Avon Barksdale."
"There is the privilege of mistakes."
"For the first two hours following the election of Barack Obama, I knew how it felt to be a white American. But all the whiteness I'd felt moments earlier and all the pride I felt moments earlier were neutralized by worry, tension, and dread. All I could think of were the wails I'd hear from the street when our Black-ass president-elect was assassinated. My president was Black. But for my sanity's sake, I wanted him to be invisible."
"The world's rapiest vat of Cheez Whiz had somehow managed to become the next president."
"It's just too fucking much to always have to be angry and alert. To always have to be ready and willing to challenge whiteness." ( )