What doesn't kill you makes you blacker : a memoir in essays / Damon Young.

For Damon Young, existing while Black is an extreme sport. The act of possessing black skin while searching for space to breathe in America is enough to induce a ceaseless state of angst where questions such as "How should I react here, as a professional black person?" and "Will this white person's...

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Uniform Title:Essays. Selections
Main Author: Young, Damon, 1978- (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2019]
Edition:First edition.
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Physical Description:307 pages ; 24 cm
Variant Title:
What does not kill you makes you blacker
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