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How to Make a Slave and Other Essays

Walker, Jerald. Book - 2020 305.896 Wa, Black Studies 305.896 Wa 1 On Shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 5 out of 5

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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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SERIES
21st century essays



PUBLISHED
Columbus : Mad Creek Books, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press, [2020]
Year Published: 2020
Description: 151 pages ; 22 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780814255995

SUBJECTS
Walker, Jerald.
African Americans -- Race identity.
Race discrimination.
Families.