![]() ![]() ![]() An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the USA $16.Walker refuses to lull his readers instead his missives urge them to do better as they consider, through his eyes, how to be a good citizen, how to be a good father, how to live, and how to love. Finalist, National Book Award in Nonfiction. The result is a bracing and often humorous examination by one of America’s most acclaimed essayists of what it is to grow, parent, write, and exist as a black American male. Making decisions for another person as if a parent, rather than allowing that person the freedom to make their own decisions and choices. How to Make a Slave enters into perfect dialogue with Claudia Rankines Just Us: An American Conversation. ![]() Whether confronting the medical profession’s racial biases, considering the complicated legacy of Michael Jackson, paying homage to his writing mentor James Alan McPherson, or attempting to break free of personal and societal stereotypes, Walker elegantly blends personal revelation and cultural critique. He is talking to himself about his life and allows us to listen in. How to Make A Slave and Other Essays by Jerald Walkerįor the black community, Jerald Walker asserts in How to Make a Slave, “anger is often a prelude to a joke, as there is broad understanding that the triumph over this destructive emotion lay in finding its punchline.” It is on the knife’s edge between fury and farce that the essays in this exquisite collection balance. ![]()
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