What Doesn't Kill You Makes You BlackerAuthor :
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Published : Thursday 19 March 2020
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A Finalist for the NAACP Image AwardA Finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for NonfictionA Finalist for the Thurber Prize for American HumorLonglisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the EssayAn NPR Best Book of the YearA Washington Independent Review of Books Favorite of the YearFrom the host of podcast "Stuck with Damon Young," cofounder of VerySmartBrothas.com, and one of the mostA readA writers on race and culture at work today, a provocative and humorous memoir-in-essays that explores the ever-shifting definitions of what it means to be Black (and male) in AmericaFor 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 â?oHow should I react here, as a professional black person?â?? and â?oWill this white personâ?Ts potato salad kill me?â?? are forever relevant. What Doesnâ?Tt Kill You Makes You BlackerA chronicles Youngâ?Ts efforts to survive while battling and making sense of the various neuroses his country has given him. Itâ?Ts a condition thatâ?Ts sometimes stretched to absurd limits: creating the farce where, as a teen, he wished for a white person to call him a racial slur just so he could fight him and have a great story about it; provoking the angst that made him question ifA â?obeing straightâ?? was something he could practice and get better at, like a crossover dribble; and generating the surreal experience of watching his Pittsburgh neighborhood getrifyA from predominantly Black to â?oPortlandia . . . but with Pierogies.â??A And, at its most devastating, it provides him reason to believe that his mother would be alive today if she were white. From one of our most respected cultural observers,A What Doesnâ?Tt Kill You Makes You BlackerA is a hilarious and honest debut that is both a celebration of the idiosyncrasies and distinctions of Blackness and a critique of white supremacy and how we define masculinity.
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