We can't breathe : on black lives, white lies, and the art of survival

Title
We can't breathe : on black lives, white lies, and the art of survival

Author
Asim, Jabari, 1962- author.

ISBN
9781250174536

Edition
1st ed.

Physical Description
193 pages ; 19 cm.

Contents
Getting it twisted -- The elements of strut -- Shooting negroes -- Color him father -- The seer and the seen : on reading and being -- Brick relics -- The thing itself -- Of love and struggle : the limits of respectability -- Selected bibliography.

Subject Term
African Americans -- Social conditions.
 
African Americans -- History.
 
Racism -- United States -- History.
 
Restorative justice -- United States.

Geographic Term
United States -- Race relations.

Genre
Essays

Summary
Asim disrupts what Toni Morrison [calls] the 'master narrative' and replaces it with a story of black survival and persistence through art and community in the face of centuries of racism. In eight ... essays, he explores such topics as the twisted legacy of jokes and falsehoods in black life; the importance of black fathers and community; the significance of black writers and stories; and the beauty and pain of the black body"--Front flap.


LibraryCall NumberStatus
Hardwood Creek Library (Forest Lake)305.896073 ASINonfiction Collection
R.H. Stafford Library (Woodbury)305.896073 ASINonfiction Collection