How To Make a Slave and Other Essays
Jerald Walker
Personal essays exploring identity, family, and community through the prism of race and black culture. Confronts the medical profession's racial biases, shopping while black at Whole Foods, the legacy of Michael Jackson, raising black boys, haircuts that scare white people, racial profiling, and growing up in Southside Chicago.
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- Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio
- Year
- 2020
- ISBN-13
- 9781713616092
- Genre
- Biography & Memoir
- Topics
- Race and identityBlack culture and familyRacial profiling and bias
Awards
- National Book Award for NonfictionShortlistedMajor(2020)
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