How to Be Black Author: Baratunde Thurston | Language: English | ISBN:
B005GFPZZO | Format: EPUB
How to Be Black Description
The Onion’s Baratunde Thurston shares his 30-plus years of expertise in being black, with helpful essays like “How to Be the Black Friend,” “How to Speak for All Black People,” “How To Celebrate Black History Month,” and more, in this satirical guide to race issues—written for black people and those who love them. Audacious, cunning, and razor-sharp, How to Be Black exposes the mass-media’s insidiously racist, monochromatic portrayal of black culture’s richness and variety. Fans of Stuff White People Like, This Week in Blackness, and Ending Racism in About an Hour will be captivated, uplifted, incensed, and inspired by this hilarious and powerful attack on America’s blacklisting of black culture: Baratunde Thurston’s How to Be Black.
- File Size: 628 KB
- Print Length: 275 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0062003224
- Publisher: Harper (January 31, 2012)
- Sold by: HarperCollins Publishers
- Language: English
- ASIN: B005GFPZZO
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Lending: Not Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #110,545 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
I've followed Baratunde on Twitter for a couple years now, and I've been anticipating this book for a while. He's hilarious, and the book is proof of it. With chapters on things like How to Be the Next Black President, how could it not?
While the book is funny - and mostly satirical - it also comments on what it actually means to be black in the U.S. today. The personal stories that Baratunde shares are heartening, informative, allegorical and more.
The interviews with people like Elon James White and Cheryl Contee are fantastic, too. Basically just a fantastic book.
By Jessica
Race is a tough topic to discuss in the U.S. Baratunde Thurston makes it a whole lot easier with the humor in this book. Both a memoir of growing up black in the late 20th century and a sharp social commentary--not to mention a handy instruction manual--"How to Be Black" is a funny and thought-provoking read.
By Sarah Milstein
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