"A blazing memoir in essays" (
Entertainment Weekly) that explores the ever-shifting definitions of what it means to be black (and a man) in America.
An NPR Best Book of the Year
A
Washington Independent Review of Books Favorite of the Year
A Finalist for the NAACP Image Award
A Finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Nonfiction
A Finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor
Longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay
For Damon Young, existing while black is an extreme sport. The act of possessing black skin while searching for space to breathe in America is enough to induce a ceaseless state of angst, where questions such as "How should I react here, as a Professional Black Person?" and "Will this white person's potato salad kill me?" are forever relevant.
Both a celebration of the idiosyncrasies and distinctions of blackness and a critique of white supremacy and how we define masculinity,
What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker is a hilarious and honest debut that chronicles Young's efforts to survive while battling and making sense of the various neuroses his country has given him.
"Young delivers a passionate, wryly bittersweet tribute to Black life in majority-white Pittsburgh . . . A must read." —
Booklist (starred review)
"Young's charm and wit make these essays a pleasure to read; his candid approach makes them memorable." —
Publishers Weekly (starred review)
- 320 pages
- English
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction: Living While Black Is an Extreme Sport
- 1: Nigger Fight Story
- 2: Street Cred
- 3: Bomb-Ass Poetry
- 4: Your Turn
- 5: No Homo
- 6: Driver’s Ed
- 7: Three Niggas
- 8: Obama Bomaye
- 9: Broke
- 10: How to Make the Internet Hate You in 15 Simple Steps
- 11: Banging Over Bacon
- 12: Yolo
- 13: Living While Black Killed My Mom
- 14: East Liberty Kutz
- 15: Thursday-Night Hoops
- 16: Zoe
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Copyright
- About the Publisher
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