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Walking on water : Black American lives at the turn of the twenty-first century / Randall Kenan.

Title
  1. Walking on water : Black American lives at the turn of the twenty-first century / Randall Kenan.
Published by
  1. New York : A.A. Knopf, 1999.
Author
  1. Kenan, Randall

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Description
  1. xii, 670 p.; 25 cm.
Summary
  1. From the author of the National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Let the Dead Bury Their Dead comes a group portrait of African Americans at the turn of the twenty-first century. In a blend of oral history and travel writing, Randall Kenan sets out to answer a question that has long fascinated him: What does it mean to be black in America today? To find the answers, Kenan traveled America--from Alaska to Louisiana, from Maine to Las Vegas--over the course of six years, interviewing nearly two hundred African Americans from every conceivable walk of life. We meet a Republican congressman and an AIDS activist; a Baptist minister in Mormon Utah and an ambitious public-relations major in North Dakota; militant activists in Atlanta and movie folks in Los Angeles. The result is a sharp, full picture of contemporary African American lives and experiences.
Subject
  1. Kenan, Randall > Journeys > United States
  2. Kenan, Randall > Journeys > Canada
  3. Kenan, Randall > Travel > United States
  4. Kenan, Randall > Travel > Canada
  5. Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
  6. African Americans > Interviews
  7. African Americans > Race identity
  8. United States > Race relations > Anecdotes
  9. Canada > Race relations > Anecdotes
  10. United States > Description and travel
  11. Canada > Description and travel
Genre/Form
  1. Anecdotes
  2. Interviews
  3. Anecdotes.
  4. Interviews.
Contents
  1. Come out the wilderness -- 1: In Thoreau's backyard -- Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts: once upon an Eden -- Burlington, Vermont: where two or three are gathered in my name -- Bangor, Maine: many hundred gone -- 2: The great big middle -- Buffalo, New York: lake effect -- Idlewild, Michigan: the snowbirds -- Madison, Wisconsin: something like the future -- Chicago, Illinois: my own private Chicago -- St. Paul/Minneapolis, Minnesota: what is the question? -- Grand Forks, North Dakota: "how old would you be if you didn't know how old you was?" -- Coeur d'Alene, Idaho: fight no more forever -- 3: The ice mystique -- Maidstone and North Battleford, Saskatchewan: by the big gulley -- Anchorage, Alaska: cold hands and fiery hearts -- 4: Our still-frontier -- Seattle, Washington: city on the edge of forever -- San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles and Allensworth, California: the there there -- 5: Promised lands -- Las Vegas, Nevada, the American city -- Salt Lake City, Utah: upon this desert -- Cheyenne, Wyoming: and still I rise -- Denver, Colorado: destiny made manifest -- 6: Night song after death -- Lafayette, Louisiana: Zydeco who? -- Atlanta and St. Simons Island, Georgia: walking on water -- 7: Home to a very strange place -- Cyberspace, North Carolina: where am I black? -- New York, New York: blackness on my mind.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [645]-660) and index.
Processing action (note)
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