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Walking on Water

By Randall Kenan

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Walking on Water

By Randall Kenan

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"A meaningful panoramic view of what it means to be human...Cause for celebration." --Times-Picayune From 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 him: 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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
688
Release Date:
2000-02-22
Publication Date:
2000-02-22
Publisher:
Random House
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
067973788X
ISBN13:
9780679737889
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
553 g
Height:
134 cm
Width:
204 cm
Thickness:
30 cm
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