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Author Asim, Jabari, 1962- author.

Title We can't breathe : on black lives, white lies, and the art of survival / Jabari Asim.

Publication Info. New York : Picador, [2018]
©2018

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  305.896 As42w 2018    ---  Available
1 copy being processed for Axe Acquisitions Order.
Edition First edition.
Description 193 pages ; 19 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Getting it twisted -- The elements of strut -- Shooting negroes -- Color him father -- The seer and the seen : on reading and being -- Brick relics -- The thing itself -- Of love and struggle : the limits of respectability -- Selected bibliography.
Summary "Asim disrupts what Toni Morrison [calls] the 'master narrative' and replaces it with a story of black survival and persistence through art and community in the face of centuries of racism. In eight ... essays, he explores such topics as the twisted legacy of jokes and falsehoods in black life; the importance of black fathers and community; the significance of black writers and stories; and the beauty and pain of the black body"--Front flap.
Subject African Americans -- Social conditions.
African Americans -- History.
Racism -- United States -- History.
Restorative justice -- United States.
Race relations. (OCoLC)fst01086509
United States -- Race relations.
African Americans. (OCoLC)fst00799558
African Americans -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst00799698
Racism. (OCoLC)fst01086616
Restorative justice. (OCoLC)fst01096003
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form Essays.
Essays. (OCoLC)fst01919922
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Essays.
Added Title We cannot breathe
ISBN 9781250174536 (trade pbk.)
1250174538
9781250174512 (ebook)
Standard No. 40028643337

 
    
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