My mother. Barack Obama. Donald Trump. And the last stand of the angry white man
"Written in the tradition of works by Joan Didion, bell hooks, Toni Morrison, and Eve Ensler, a provocative and soul-searching 'autobiography of America'--the past, the present, and the future Kevin Powell wants for us all, through the lens and lives of three major figures: his mother...
| Main Author: | Powell, Kevin, 1966- (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Atria Books,
2018.
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| Edition: | First Atria Books hardcover edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Allow me to re-introduce myself?
- Letter to a young man
- Will racism ever end? Will I ever stop being a ______?
- The day our Prince died
- A letter to Tupac Shakur
- Why Baltimore is burning
- Cam Newton, and the killing of a mockingbird
- The liner notes for the a Tribe Called Quest greatest hits album that never happened
- Jay-Z and the remaking of his manhood, or, the crumpled and forgotten freedom papers of Mr. Shawn Carter
- Me and Muhammad Ali
- Hamilton, O.J. Simpson, Orlando, gun violence, and what the 4th of July, Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, and the Dallas and Baton Rouge police shootings mean to me
- Prodigy and the America that raised him
- Re-defining manhood : Harvey Weinstein and how his toxic manhood is our toxic manhood, too
- My mother. Barack Obama. Donald Trump. and the last stand of the angry white man.