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This exciting collection introduces the first-ever annual anthology of writing by African Americans. Here are remarkable essays on a variety of subjects informed by-but not necessarily about-the experience of blackness, as seen through the eyes of some of our finest writers. From art, entertainment, and science to technology, sexuality, and current events-including the battle for the Democratic nomination for the presidency-the essays in this inaugural anthology offer the compelling perspectives of a number of well-known, distinguished writers, among them Malcolm Gladwell, Jamaica Kincaid, James McBride, and Walter Mosley, and a number of other writers who are just beginning to be heard. Selected from a diverse array of respected publications such as theNew Yorker, theVirginia Quarterly Review,Slate, andNational Geographic, the essays gathered here are about making history, living everyday life-and everything in between. In "Fired," author and professor Emily Bernard wrestles with the pain of a friendship inexplicably ended. Kenneth McClane writes hauntingly of the last days of his parents' lives in "Driving." Journalist Brian Palmer shares "The Last Thoughts of an Iraq War Embed." Jamaica Kincaid describes her oddly charged relationship with that quintessentially British, Wordsworthian flower in "Dances with Daffodils," and writer Hawa Allan depicts the forces of race and rivalry as two catwalk icons face off in "When Tyra Met Naomi." A venue in which African American writers can branch out from traditionally "black" subjects,Best African American Essaysfeatures a range of gifted voices exploring the many issues and experiences, joys and trials, that, as human beings, we all share. Please click the "Behind the Book" link for contributor's bios. From the Hardcover edition.

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Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0553806912
ISBN-13
9780553806915
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Book Title
Best African American Essays 2009
Author
Debra J. Dickerson
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
American / African American, Essays
Publication Year
2009
Genre
Literary Collections
Number of Pages
320 Pages

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6.3in
Item Weight
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"A cracking good read, something that all too few essay anthologies manage to be."-Kirkus Reviews "This fascinating collection offers a look at the variety of perspectives on the African diaspora and larger human experience." -Booklist "Both intensely personal and political."-Boston Globe "These short stories, excerpts from novels, and thoughtful essays cover a broad range of subjects, experiences and perspectives from many of the best writers working today."-Sacramento Bee
Table of Content
Introduction/By Gerald Early, Series Editor Introduction/By Debra J. Dickerson, Guest Editor Friends, Family Fired: Can a Friendship Really End for no Good Reason?/By Emily Bernard Gray Shawl/By Walter Mosley Real Food/By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Entertainment, Sports, the Arts Hip Hop Planet/By James McBride Writers Like Me/By Martha Southgate Dances with Daffodils/By Jamaica Kincaid The Coincidental Cousins: A Night Out with Artist Kara Walker/By James Hannaham Music: Bodies in Pain/By Mark Anthony Neal When Tyra Met Naomi: Race, Fashion, and Rivalry/By Hawa Allen Dancing in the Dark: Race, Sex, the South, and Exploitative Cinema/By Gerald Early Modern-Day Mammy?/By Jill Nelson Broken Dreams/By Michael A. Gonzales Sciences, Technology, Education None of the Above: What I.Q. Doesn't Tell You About Race/By Malcolm Gladwell Driving/By Kenneth A. McClane Part I: I Had a Dream/By Bill Maxwell Part II: A Dream Lay Dying/By Bill Maxwell Part III: The Once and Future Promise/By Bill Maxwell Gay Get Out of My Closet: Can You Be White and "On the Down Low"?/By Benoit Denizet-Lewis Girls to Men: Young Lesbians in Brooklyn Find That a Thug's Life Gets Them More Women/By ChloÃ© A. Hilliard Internationally Black A Slow Emancipation/By Kwame Anthony Appiah Searching for Zion/By Emily Raboteau Last Thoughts of an Iraq "Embed"/By Brian Palmer Stop Trying to "Save" Africa/By Uzodinma Iweala We Are Americans/By Jerald Walker Activism/ Political Thought Jena, O.J. and the Jailing of Black America/By Orlando Patterson One Nationâ€¦Under God?/By Sen. Barack Obama Americans Without Americanness: Is Our Nation Nothing More Than an Address?/By John McWhorter Barack Obama/By Michael Eric Dyson Standing Up for "Bad" Words/By Stephane Dunn Debunking "Driving While Black" Myth/By Thomas Sowell Goodbye to All That: Why Obama Matters/By Andrew Sullivan The High Ground/By Stanley Crouch Permissions and Credits About the Editors From the Hardcover edition.
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