What doesn't kill you makes you blacker : a memoir in essays
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What doesn't kill you makes you blacker : a memoir in essays
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The work What doesn't kill you makes you blacker : a memoir in essays represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
- Label
- What doesn't kill you makes you blacker : a memoir in essays
- Title remainder
- a memoir in essays
- Statement of responsibility
- Damon Young
- Title variation
- What does not kill you makes you blacker
- Subject
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- African American journalists
- African American journalists -- Biography
- African American journalists -- Biography
- African American men
- African American men
- African American men
- African American men -- Biography
- African American men -- Biography
- African American men -- Social conditions
- African American men -- Social conditions
- Autobiographies
- Autobiographies
- Autobiographies
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / African American & Black
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
- Biography
- Biography
- Essays
- Essays
- Essays
- LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays
- Race relations
- Race relations
- Racism
- Racism
- Racism -- United States
- Racism -- United States
- United States
- United States
- United States -- Race relations
- United States -- Race relations
- Young, Damon, 1978-
- African American men -- Social conditions
- African American journalists
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- For Damon Young, existing while Black is an extreme sport. The act of possessing black skin while searching for space to breathe in America is enough to induce a ceaseless state of angst where questions such as "How should I react here, as a professional black person?" and "Will this white person's potato salad kill me?" are forever relevant. What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker chronicles Young's efforts to survive while battling and making sense of the various neuroses his country has given him. It's a condition that's sometimes stretched to absurd limits, provoking the angst that made him question if he was any good at the "being straight" thing, as if his sexual orientation was something he could practice and get better at, like a crossover dribble move or knitting; creating the farce where, as a teen, he wished for a white person to call him a racial slur just so he could fight him and have a great story about it; and generating the surreality of watching gentrification transform his Pittsburgh neighborhood from predominantly Black to "Portlandia . . . but with Pierogies." And, at its most devastating, it provides him reason to believe that his mother would be alive today if she were white. From one of our most respected cultural observers, What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker is a hilarious and honest debut that is both a celebration of the idiosyncrasies and distinctions of Blackness and a critique of white supremacy and how we define masculinity
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Cataloging source
- NjBwBT
- Dewey number
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- 973/.04960730092
- B
- 305.896/073
- B
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- E185.97.Y632
- LC item number
- A3 2019
- Literary form
- non fiction
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