We can't breathe
Subtitle: on black lives, white lies, and the art of survival
By: Jabari Asim
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Picador
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 193
ISBN-13: 9781250174536
Subjects: Social conditions; Race relations; Restorative justice; African Americans; Racism; History
Other titles: We cannot breathe
Description: "Asim disrupts what Toni Morrison [calls] the 'master narrative' and replaces it with a story of black survival and persistence through art and community in the face of centuries of racism. In eight ... essays, he explores such topics as the twisted legacy of jokes and falsehoods in black life; the importance of black fathers and community; the significance of black writers and stories; and the beauty and pain of the black body"--Front flap.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Getting it twisted; title: The elements of strut; title: Shooting negroes; title: Color him father; title: The seer and the seen : on reading and being; title: Brick relics; title: The thing itself; title: Of love and struggle : the limits of respectability; title: Selected bibliography.