num_pages: 340
description: You may know W. Kamau Bell from his hit show on CNN. Or maybe you've read about him in The New York Times or The New Yorker about his intersectional progressivism gimmick: he treats racial gay and women's issues as inseparable.The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell is a humorous well-informed take on the world today tackling a wide range of evergreen issues such as race relations; fatherhood; the state of law enforcement today; comedians and superheroes; right-wing politics; failure; his interracial marriage; his upbringing by very strong-willed race-conscious yet ideologically opposite parents; his early days struggling to find his comedic voice then his later days struggling to find his comedic voice; why he never seemed to fit in with the Black comedy scene . . . or the white comedy scene; how he was a Black nerd way before that became a thing; how it took his wife and an East Bay lesbian to teach him that racism and sexism often walk hand in hand; and much much more.
language: English
title: The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell: Tales of a 6' 4", African American, Heterosexual, Cisgender, Left-Leaning, Asthmatic, Black and Proud Blerd, Mama's Boy, Dad, and Stand-Up Comedian
publisher: Dutton