Walking on Water

Name: Walking on Water
Brand: Vintage
SKU: 9780679737889-PRUSDTR-US
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Black American Lives at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century

Randall Kenan (Author) ... more

Edition: US - Paperback / softback

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English • Age Adult - Adult

688 pages • 5.2 x 8.0 x 1.5 in

Approx. weight: 1.18 lb

Publication date: 22 Feb,2000

Barcode: 9780679737889 • Vintage

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By: Randall Kenan

"A meaningful panoramic view of what it means to be human...Cause for celebration." --Times-Picayune

From the author of the National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Let the Dead Bury Their Dead comes a moving, cliché-shattering group portrait of African Americans at the turn of the twenty-first century.

In a hypnotic blend of oral history and travel writing, Randall Kenan sets out to answer a question that has has long fascinated him: What does it mean to be black in America today? To find the answers, Kenan traveled America--from Alaska to Louisiana, from Maine to Las Vegas--over the course of six years, interviewing nearly two hundred African Americans from every conceivable walk of life. We meet a Republican congressman and an AIDS activist; a Baptist minister in Mormon Utah and an ambitious public-relations major in North Dakota; militant activists in Atlanta and movie folks in Los Angeles. The result is a marvellously sharp, full picture of contemporary African American lives and experiences.