What It Is : Race, Family, and One Thinking Black Man's Blues, Hardcover by T...

Description: What It Is : Race, Family, and One Thinking Black Man's Blues, Hardcover by Thompson, Clifford, ISBN 1590519051, ISBN-13 9781590519059, Brand New, Free shipping in the US "An African-American writer's concise, heartfelt take on the state of his nation, exploring the war between the values he has always held and the reality with which he is confronted in twenty-first-century America. In the tradition of James Baldwin's TheFire Next Time and Ta-Nehisi Coates's Between the World and Me comes Clifford Thompson's What It Is. Thompson was raised to believe in treating every person of every color as an individual, and he decided as a young man that America, despite its history of racial oppression, was his home as much as anyone else's. As a middle-aged, happily married father of biracial children, Thompson finds himself questioning his most deeply held convictions when the race-baiting Donald Trump ascends to the presidency --elected by whites, whom Thompson had refused to judge as a group, and who make up the majority in this country Thompson had called his own. In the grip of contradictory emotions, Thompson turns for guidance to the wisdom of writers he admires while knowing that the answers to his questions about America ultimately lie in America itself. Through interviews with a small but varied group of Americans he hears sharply divergent opinions about what is happening in the country while trying to find his own answers -- conclusions based not on conventional wisdom or on what he would like to believe, but on what he sees"--

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Book Title: What It Is : Race, Family, and One Thinking Black Man's Blues

Number of Pages: 176 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: Other Press, LLC

Topic: Ethnic Studies / General, Sociology / General, Personal Memoirs, Literary, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies

Item Height: 0.8 in

Publication Year: 2019

Illustrator: Yes

Genre: Social Science, Biography & Autobiography

Item Weight: 9.4 Oz

Author: Clifford Thompson

Item Length: 7.7 in

Item Width: 5.3 in

Format: Trade Paperback