We can't breathe : on black lives, white lies, and the art of survival / Jabari Asim.
"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...
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Language: | English |
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New York :
Picador,
[2018]
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Edition: | First Edition. |
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Physical Description: | 193 pages ; 19 cm |
Variant Title: |
We cannot breathe |
Format: | Book |
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.