![]() In his second, he focused on growing up Black in a segregated, white-supremacist, Doomsday cult. ![]() "Personal essays exploring identity, family, and community through the prism of race and black culture. In his first book, Jerald Walker wrote about fighting through the systemic racism that surrounded him as a young adult in the south side of Chicago. It is on the knife’s edge between fury and farce that the essays in this exquisite collection balance. How to make a slave - Dragon slayers - Before grief - Inauguration - Kaleshion - The heritage room - Unprepared - Feeding pigeons - Breathe - The heart - Balling - Testimony - Smoke - Wars - Simple - The designated driver - Strippers - Thieves - Once more to the ghetto - Race stories - Advice to a family man. For 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. ![]() ![]() ![]() Publisher: Columbus : Mad Creek Books, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press, Ĭontent descriptions Formatted Contents Note:. ![]()
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