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001 2009379257
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008 090130s2009 nyu 000 e eng d
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050 00 $aPS683.A35$bB48 2009
245 00 $aBest African American essays, 2009 /$cGerald Early, series editor ; Debra J. Dickerson, guest editor.
250 $aBantam hardcover and trade pbk. eds.
260 $aNew York :$bBantam Books,$c2009.
300 $axxiv, 288 p. ;$c25 cm.
505 00 $gIntroduction /$rGerald Early --$gIntroduction /$rby Debra J. Dickerson --$tFriends, family :$tFired: can a friendship really end for no good reason? /$rby Emily Bernard --$tGray shawl /$rby Walter Mosley --$tReal food /$rby Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.$tEntertainment, 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.$tSciences, technology, education :$tNone of the above: what I.Q. doesn't tell you about race /$rby Malcolm Gladwell --$tDriving /$rby Kenneth A. McClane --$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 /$rby Bill Maxwell.$tGay:$tGet out of my closet: can you be white and "On the down low"? /$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.$tInternationally black:$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 /$rby Jerald Walker.$tActivism/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 --$tStanding up for "bad" words /$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.
650 0 $aAmerican essays$y21st century.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$vLiterary collections.
700 1 $aEarly, Gerald Lyn.
700 1 $aDickerson, Debra J.,$d1959-
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0906/2009379257-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0906/2009379257-d.html
856 41 $3Sample text$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0906/2009379257-s.html
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0906/2009379257-t.html