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How to make a slave and other essays / Jerald Walker.

By: Series: 21st century essaysPublisher: Columbus : Mad Creek Books, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: viii, 151 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780814255995
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PS3623 .A35938 A6 2020
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.
Summary: "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.
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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.

"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.

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