Busted in New York and other essays

Pinckney, Darryl, 1953- author.

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A collection of essays that blend the personal and the social, from the celebrated literary critic and novelist In these twenty-five essays, Darryl Pinckney has given us a view of our recent racial history that blends the social and the personal and wonders how we arrived at our current moment. Pinckney reminds us that ?white supremacy isnt back; it never went away.? It is this impulse to see historically that is at the core of Busted in New York...

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ISBN:

9781250758132
9780374117443

Edition:

First edition

Description:

xxvi, 384 pages ; 20 cm

Notes:

Publisher, pagination and printing dates may vary
Includes bibliographical references

Contents:

Foreword: thus far on the way / by Zadie Smith
Slouching toward Washington
Busted in New York
Beyond the fringe
Dreams from Obama
Obama and the black church
What he really said
Deep in the bowl
Invisible black America
In Ferguson
Black lives and the police
Pilot me
Austere and lonely offices
The great puzzle
The Afro pessimist temptation
Paris: the black maestro
On your own in Russia
How I got over
Banjo
The real Harlem
The genius of blackness
Black master
Looking at Selma
Under the spell of James Baldwin
Moon over Miami
Miss Aretha Franklin

LCCN:

2019020214

Control Number:

3029938

Other Authors:

Smith, Zadie, writer of foreword

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