What's Going On: Personal Essays - Softcover

McCall, Nathan

 
9780375701504: What's Going On: Personal Essays
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0375701508 ISBN 13: 9780375701504
Verlag: Vintage, 1998

Inhaltsangabe

   With the same personal authority and exhilarating directness he brought to his account of his passage from a prison cell to the newsroom of The Washington Post, Nathan McCall delivers a series of front-line reports on the state of the races in today's America. The resulting volume is guaranteed to shake the assumptions of readers of every pigmentation and political allegiance.
   In What's Going On, McCall adds up the hidden costs of the stereotype of black athletic prowess, which tells African American teenagers that they can only succeed on the white man's terms. He introduces a fresh perspective to the debates on gangsta rap and sexual violence. He indicts the bigotry of white churches and the complacency of the black suburban middle class, celebrates the heroism of Muhammad Ali, and defends the truth-telling of Alice Walker. Engaging, provocative, and utterly fearless, here is a commentator to reckon with, addressing our most persistent divisions in a voice of stinging immediacy.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

   Nathan McCall's autobiography, Makes Me Wanna Holler, was a New York Times bestseller.  The book also won the Blackboard Book of the Year Award for 1995.  McCall has worked as a journalist for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the Virginian Pilot-Ledger Star. He is currently on leave from The Washington Post, McCall lives in Maryland, just outside of Washington, D.C.

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Current Affairs / African American Studies
"Filled with essays that challenge America's myths.... His easy reading style unsuspectingly pricks the conscience." --USA Today
ith the same personal authority and exhilarating directness he brought to his account of his passage from a prison cell to the newsroom of The Washington Post, Nathan McCall delivers a series of front-line reports on the state of the races in today's America. The resulting volume is guaranteed to shake the assumptions of readers of every pigmentation and political allegiance.
In What's Going On, McCall adds up the hidden costs of the stereotype of black athletic prowess, which tells African American teenagers that they can only succeed on the white man's terms. He introduces a fresh perspective to the debates on gangsta rap and sexual violence. He indicts the bigotry of white churches and the complacency of the black suburban middle class, celebrates the heroism of Muhammad Ali, and defends the truth-telling of Alice Walker. Engaging, provocative, and utterly fearless, here is a commentator to reckon with, addressing our most persistent divisions in a voice of stinging immediacy.
"[These essays] reinforce the moral authority McCall [brings]
to the issue of America's racial schisms."
--The New York Times Book Review
"Straightforward, quick-moving [and] erudite."
--Philadelphia Inquirer

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Verlag
Vintage
Erscheinungsdatum
1998
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0375701508
ISBN 13 
9780375701504
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
192
Kontakt zum Hersteller
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Verantwortliche Person
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