Walking on Water: Black American Lives at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century - Hardcover

Kenan, Randall

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679408274 ISBN 13: 9780679408277

Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1999

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Book by Kenan Randall

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An authoritative look at the state of affairs for African Americans in the 1990s is based on interviews taken from diverse members of that community across the nation and explores both the hopes and difficulties of being black in America today. 20,000 first printing.

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g on Water is a profoundly moving and provocative account--both timely and enduring--of the thoughts, the feelings, the lives, of African Americans in the post-Civil Rights era of the nineties, by the highly praised author of Let the Dead Bury Their Dead and A Visitation of Spirits.

Traversing the country over a period of six years, Randall Kenan talked to nearly two hundred African Americans, whose individual stories he has shaped into a continent-sized tapestry of black American life today. He starts his journey in the famous, long-standing black resort community on Martha's Vineyard, travels up through New England, and heads west, visiting Chicago, Minneapolis (home of the singer Prince and  of the Pilgrim Baptist Church, with its seven choirs and vast outreach), Coeur d'Alene (skinhead capital of the world), Seattle, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas. He moves on to the South, to Louisiana and St. Simons Island, where so many slave ships landed, and

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• Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0679408274
• ISBN 13: 9780679408277
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 670