How to slowly kill yourself and others in America : essays / Kiese Laymon.

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"A collection of essays on family, race, violence, celebrity, music, writing, and other topics"--

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Main Author: Laymon, Kiese
Language:English
Published: Chicago : Bolden, an Agate imprint, 2013.
Subjects:
Laymon, Kiese.
African American novelists > Biography.
African American teachers > Biography.
Jackson (Miss.) > Biography.
Genre:
Biography.
Physical Description:148 pages ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Prologue: We will never ever know
  • The worst of white folks
  • How to slowly kill yourself and others in America
  • Our kind of ridiculous
  • Hip-hop stole my southern Black boy
  • Echo: Mychal, Darnell, Kiese, Kai, and Marlon
  • Kanye West and HaLester Myers are better at their jobs...
  • Reasonable doubt and the lost presidential debate of 2012
  • Eulogy for three Black boys who lived
  • You are the second person
  • Epilogue: my first teachers: a dialogue.