How to make a slave and other essays

"Personal essays exploring identity, family, and community through the prism of race and black culture. Confronts the medical profession's racial biases, shopping while black at Whole Foods, the legacy of Michael Jackson, raising black boys, haircuts that scare white people, racial profili...

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Main Author: Walker, Jerald (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: Columbus : Mad Creek Books, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press, [2020]
Series: 21st century essays.
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Table of Contents:
  • How to make a slave
  • Dragon slayers
  • Before grief
  • Inauguration
  • Kaleshion
  • The heritage room
  • Unprepared
  • Feeding pigeons
  • Breathe
  • The heart
  • Balling
  • Testimony
  • Smoke
  • Wars
  • Simple
  • The designated driver
  • Strippers
  • Thieves
  • Once more to the ghetto
  • Race stories
  • Advice to a family man.