How to Make a Slave and Other Essays
Columbus : Mad Creek Books, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press, [2020]
Format: Book
Description: viii, 151 pages ; 22 cm.
"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 profiling, and growing up in Southside Chicago"-- Provided by publisher.
Series: 21st century essays.
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.
ISBN:
9780814255995
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LITERATURE Essays Wal | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |