We can't breathe : on black lives, white lies, and the art of survival /

Asim disrupts what Toni Morrison calls the 'master narrative' and replaces it with a story of black survival and persistence through art and community in the face of centuries of racism. In eight essays, he explores such topics as the twisted legacy of jokes and falsehoods in black life, t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Asim, Jabari, 1962- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Picador, [2018]
Edition:	First Edition.
Subjects:	African Americans > Social conditions. African Americans > History. Racism > United States > History. United States > Race relations. Restorative justice > United States. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Essays. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies.

Table of Contents:

Getting it twisted
The elements of strut
Shooting negroes
Color him father
The seer and the seen : on reading and being
Brick relics
The thing itself
Of love and struggle : the limits of respectability
Selected bibliography.