Special Offers see all
More at Powell'sRecently Viewed clear list
Guests | April 22, 2013
0 comments
|
 
$3.50
Used Trade Paper
Ships in 1 to 3 days
More copies of this ISBNThis title in other editionsOther titles in the Best African American Essays series:Best African American Essays: 2009 (Best African American Essays)by Gerald Early
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:This exciting collection introduces the first-ever annual anthology of writing by African Americans. Here are remarkable essays on a variety of subjects informed bybut not necessarily aboutthe experience of blackness, as seen through the eyes of some of our finest writers.
From art, entertainment, and science to technology, sexuality, and current eventsincluding the battle for the Democratic nomination for the presidencythe 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 the New Yorker, the Virginia Quarterly Review, Slate, and National Geographic, the essays gathered here are about making history, living everyday lifeand 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 Essays features 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 contributors bios. From the Hardcover edition. Synopsis:Published simultaneously in trade paperback and hardcover these first volumes of two new annual series feature essays and stories written by critically acclaimed African-American writers. "Best African American Essays" is a compelling compilation of nonfiction writing on issues that are in the forefront of a national dialogue today, including pieces by and about Senator Barack Obama.
Synopsis:"Best African American Essays" is a compelling compilation of nonfiction writing on issues that are in the forefront of a national dialogue today, including pieces by and about Senator Barack Obama.
About the AuthorDebra J. Dickerson was educated at the University of Maryland, St. Marys University, and Harvard Law School. She has been both a senior editor and a contributing editor at U.S. News & World Report, and her work has also appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the Washington Post, the New Republic, Slate, the Village Voice, and Essence. She is the author of The End of Blackness and An American Story. She lives in Albany, New York.
Gerald Early is a noted essayist and American culture critic. A professor of English, African & African American Studies, and American Culture Studies at Washington University in St. Louis, Early is the author of several books, including The Culture of Bruising: Essays on Prizefighting, Literature, and Modern American Culture, which won the 1994 National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism, and This Is Where I Came In: Black America in the 1960s. He is also editor of numerous volumes, including The Muhammad Ali Reader and The Sammy Davis, Jr. Reader. He served as a consultant on four of Ken Burnss documentary films, Baseball, Jazz, Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson, and The War, and appeared in the first three as an on-air analyst. Table of ContentsIntroduction/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. Doesnt 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 Thugs Life Gets Them More Women/By Chloé 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 Nation…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. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
Related Subjects
Fiction and Poetry » Anthologies » African American Literature
|
|||||||||
|
|
||||||||||
|
Follow us on...
|
||||||||||
