num_pages: 670
description: "A meaningful panoramic view of what it means to be human...Cause for celebration." -- Times-PicayuneFrom the author of the National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Let the Dead Bury Their Dead comes a moving, cliché-shattering group portrait of African Americans at the turn of the twenty-first century.In a hypnotic blend of oral history and travel writing, Randall Kenan sets out to answer a question that has has long fascinated What does it mean to be black in America today? To find the answers, Kenan traveled America--from Alaska to Louisiana, from Maine to Las Vegas--over the course of six years, interviewing nearly two hundred African Americans from every conceivable walk of life. We meet a Republican congressman and an AIDS activist; a Baptist minister in Mormon Utah and an ambitious public-relations major in North Dakota; militant activists in Atlanta and movie folks in Los Angeles. The result is a marvellously sharp, full picture of contemporary African American lives and experiences.
language: English
title: Walking on Water: Black American Lives at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century
titlecomplete: Walking on Water: Black American Lives at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century
genres: Nonfiction
ratings_count: 47
publisher: Vintage