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245 00 $aBest African American essays, 2009 /$cGerald Early, series editor ; Debra J. Dickerson, guest editor.
260 $aNew York :$bBantam Books,$cc2009.
300 $axxiv, 288 p. ;$c25 cm.
505 00 $gIntroduction /$rGerald Early --$gIntroduction /$rby Debra J. Dickerson --$gFriends, family :$tFired: can a friendship really end for no good reason? /$rby Emily Bernard --$tGray shawl /$rby Walter Mosley --$tReal food /$rby Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.$gEntertainment, sports, the arts :$tHip-hop planet /$rby James McBride --$tWriters like me /$rby Martha Southgate --$tDances with daffodils /$rby Jamaica Kincaid --$tThe coincidental cousins: a night out with artist Kara Walker /$rby James Hannaham --$tMusic: bodies in pain /$rby Mark Anthony Neal --$tWhen Tyra met Naomi: race, fashion, and rivalry /$rby Hawa Allan --$tDancing in the dark: race, sex, the South, and exploitative cinema /$rby Gerald Early --$tModern-day mammy? /$rby Jill Nelson --$tBroken dreams /$rby Michael A. Gonzales.$gSciences, technology, education :$tNone of the above: what I.Q. doesn't tell you about race /$rby Malcolm Gladwell --$tDriving /$rby Kenneth A. McClane --
505 00 $tPart I: I had a dream /$rby Bill Maxwell --$tPart II: A dream lay dying /$rby Bill Maxwell --$tPart III: The once and future promise /$rby Bill Maxwell.$gGay:$tGet out of my closet: can you be white and "On the down low"? /$rby Benoit Denizet-Lewis --$tGirls to men: young lesbians in Brooklyn find that a thug's life gets them more women /$rby Chloé A. Hilliard.$gInternationally black:$tA slow emancipation /$rby Kwame Anthony Appiah --$tSearching for Zion /$rby Emily Raboteau --$tLast thoughts of an Iraq "embed" /$rby Brian Palmer --$tStop trying to "save" Africa /$rby Uzodinma Iweala --$tWe are Americans /$rby Jerald Walker.$gActivism/Politcal thought:$tJena, O.J. and the jailing of black America /$rby Orlando Patterson --$tOne nation-- under God? /$rby Barack Obama --$tAmericans without Americanness: Is our nation nothing more than an address? /$rby John McWhorter --$tBarack Obama /$rby Michael Eric Dyson --$tStanding up for "bad" words /
505 00 $rby Stephane Dunn --$tDebunking "driving while black" myth /$rby Thomas Sowell --$tGoodbye to all that: Why Obama matters /$rby Andrew Sullivan --$tThe high ground /$rby Stanley Crouch.
520 $aSelected 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 life--and 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.
650 0 $aAmerican essays$y21st century.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$vLiterary collections.
700 1 $aEarly, Gerald Lyn.
700 1 $aDickerson, Debra J.,$d1959-
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