Out of America (New Republic Book) - Hardcover

Richburg, Keith B.

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ISBN 10: 0465001874 ISBN 13: 9780465001873

Verlag: Basic Books, 1997

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In this powerful book, Keith B. Richburg takes the reader on an extraordinary journey that sweeps from Somalia to Rwanda to Zaire and finally to South Africa. He shows how he came to terms with the divide within himself: between his African racial heritage and his American cultural identity. }Keith B. Richburg was an experienced and respected reporter who had paid his dues covering urban neighborhoods in Washington D.C., and won praise for his coverage of Southeast Asia. But nothing prepared him for the personal odyssey that he would embark upon when he was assigned to cover Africa.In this powerful book, Richburg takes the reader on an extraordinary journey that sweeps from Somalia to Rwanda to Zaire and finally to South Africa. He shows how he came to terms with the divide within himself: between his African racial heritage and his American cultural identity.Are these really my people? Am I truly an African-American? The answer, Richburg finds, after much soul-searching, is that no, he is not an African, but an American first and foremost. To those who romanticize Mother Africa as a black Valhalla, where blacks can walk with dignity and pride, he regrets that this is not the reality. He has been there and witnessed the killings, the repression, the false promises, and the horror. Thank God my nameless ancestor, brought across the ocean in chains and leg irons, made it out alive, he concludes. Thank God I am an American. }

Biografía del autor:

Keith B. Richburg is the Hong Kong bureau chief for the Washington Post.

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• Verlag: Basic Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0465001874
• ISBN 13: 9780465001873
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272