How to be black / Baratunde Thurston.
Have you ever been called "too black" or "not black enough"? Have you ever befriended or worked with a black person? If you answered yes to any of these questions, this book is for you. Raised by a pro-black, Pan-Afrikan single mother during the crack years of 1980s Washington, DC, and educated at S...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
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2012.
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| Physical Description: | viii, 254 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Introduction : thanks for celebrating black history month by acquiring this book
- Where did you get that name?
- When dod you first realize you were black?
- Mama Thurston
- How black are you?
- Do you know what an Oreo is?
- Wealth-related horse violence
- Why are you wearing that white man over your heart?
- The U.S. propaganda machine : a middle school paper
- The white student union
- How to be the black friend
- How to speak for all black people
- Have you ever wanted to not be black?
- Can you swim?
- Going back to Africa
- But I don't want to kill people
- Being black at Harvard
- How to be the black employee
- How to be the angry Negro
- How to be the (next) black president
- How's that post-racial thing working out for ya?
- The future of blackness
- Afterword : race work and art : the black panel speaks.