Who will pay reparations on my soul? : essays / Jesse McCarthy.
A young critic's essays on race and culture, from Toni Morrison to trap. -- adapted from back cover.
"A supremely talented young critic's essays on race and culture, from Toni Morrison to trap, herald the arrival of a major new voice in American letters." -- Jacket.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781631496486
- ISBN: 1631496484
- Physical Description: xxi, 324 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, [2021]
- Copyright: ©2021
Content descriptions
General Note: | "This is a very smart and soulful book. Jesse McCarthy is a terrific essayist." --Zadie Smith." -- Cover. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | The master's tools -- The origin of others -- Venus and the angel of history -- The low end theory -- Black Dada nihilismus -- To make a poet black -- Back in the day -- Notes on trap -- An open letter to D'Angelo -- Language and the black intellectual tradition -- Underground man -- Fathers and sons -- The protest poets -- On Afropessimism -- Who will pay reparations on my soul? -- The work of art in the age of spectacular reproduction -- What is a cafe? -- In the zone -- The time of the assassins -- Harlem is everywhere. |
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Subject: | Racial justice. Racism. Racial justice. |
Genre: | Essays. Essays. |
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Homer Public Library | 814.6 MCC (Text) | 000160812 | Nonfiction | Available | - |
Summary:
A young critic's essays on race and culture, from Toni Morrison to trap. -- adapted from back cover.
"A supremely talented young critic's essays on race and culture, from Toni Morrison to trap, herald the arrival of a major new voice in American letters." --
"A supremely talented young critic's essays on race and culture, from Toni Morrison to trap, herald the arrival of a major new voice in American letters." --