How to make a slave and other essays

Summary: "Personal essays exploring identity, family, and community through the prism of race and black culture. Confronts the medical profession's racial biases, shopping while black at Whole Foods, the legacy of Michael Jackson, raising black boys, haircuts that scare white people, racial profiling, and growing up in Southside Chicago"--

Record details

ISBN: 9780814255995
ISBN: 081425599X
ISBN: 9780814278215
ISBN: 0814278213
Physical Description: print
viii, 151 pages ; 22 cm.
Publisher: Columbus : Mad Creek Books, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press, [2020]
Copyright: ©2020

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

How to make a slave -- Dragon slayers -- Before grief -- Inauguration -- Kaleshion -- The heritage room -- Unprepared -- Feeding pigeons -- Breathe -- The heart -- Balling -- Testimony -- Smoke -- Wars -- Simple -- The designated driver -- Strippers -- Thieves -- Once more to the ghetto -- Race stories -- Advice to a family man.