What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker Ebook Tooltip A Memoir in Essays

Afbeeldingen

Inkijkexemplaar

Artikel vergelijken

  • Engels
  • E-book
  • 9780062684332
  • 26 maart 2019
  • Adobe ePub
Alle productspecificaties
  • Je leest ebooks gemakkelijk op je Kobo e-reader, of op je smartphone of tablet met de bol.com Kobo app. Let op! Ebooks kunnen niet geannuleerd of geretourneerd worden.

Samenvatting

A Finalist for the NAACP Image Award



A Finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Nonfiction


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 Americais 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.

Productspecificaties

Inhoud

Taal
en
Bindwijze
E-book
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum
26 maart 2019
Ebook Formaat
Adobe ePub
Illustraties
Nee

Betrokkenen

Hoofdauteur
Damon Young
Hoofduitgeverij
Ecco

Lees mogelijkheden

Lees dit ebook op
Desktop (Mac en Windows) | Kobo e-reader | Android (smartphone en tablet) | iOS (smartphone en tablet) | Windows (smartphone en tablet)

Overige kenmerken

Studieboek
Nee

EAN

EAN
9780062684332

Je vindt dit artikel in

Beschikbaarheid
Leverbaar
Taal
Engels
Boek, ebook of luisterboek?
Ebook
Studieboek of algemeen
Algemene boeken
Nog geen reviews

Waarom een wereldbollabel?

Artikelen met een wereldbol bezitten positieve eigenschappen vergeleken met soortgelijke artikelen, zoals bepaalde keur- of kenmerken op sociaal en ecologisch gebied.

Keur- of kenmerken

  • Digitaal boek
Lees meer over ons wereldbollabel

Prijsinformatie en bestellen

De prijs van dit product is 11 euro en 99 cent.
Direct beschikbaar
Verkoop door bol
Ebook
  • E-book is direct beschikbaar na aankoop
  • E-books lezen is voordelig
  • Dag en nacht klantenservice
  • Veilig betalen
Houd er rekening mee dat je downloadartikelen niet kunt annuleren of retourneren. Bij nog niet verschenen producten kun je tot de verschijningsdatum annuleren.
Zie ook de retourvoorwaarden

Alle bindwijzen en edities (6)

  • 11,99
    Direct beschikbaar
  • 25,99
    Direct beschikbaar
  • 18,99
    Uiterlijk 23 mei in huis Tooltip
  • 37,99
    2 - 3 weken Tooltip
  • 32,99
    2 - 3 weken Tooltip
  • 37,99
    2 - 3 weken Tooltip