Crazy as Hell: The Best Little Guide to Black History (eBook)

Hoke S. Glover, V. Efua Prince (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024
176 Seiten
W. W. Norton & Company (Verlag)
978-1-324-07888-3 (ISBN)

Infos

A refreshing, insightful, sacrilegious take on African American history, Crazy as Hell explores the site of America's greatest contradictions. The notables of this book are the runaways and the rebels, the badass and funky, the activists and the inmates-from Harriet Tubman, Nina Simone, and Muhammad Ali to B'rer Rabbit, Single Mamas, and Wakandans-but are they crazy as hell, or do they simply defy the expectations designated for being Black in America?With humor and insight, scholars and writers V. Efua Prince and Hoke S. Glover III (Bro. Yao) offer brief breakdowns of one hundred influential, archetypal, and infamous figures, building a new framework that emphasizes their humanity. Including an introduction by MacArthur Fellow Reginald Dwayne Betts and peppered with little-known historical facts and PSAs that get real about the Black experience, Crazy as Hell captures the tenacious, irreverent spirit that accompanies a long struggle for freedom.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.6.2024
• Einführung: Reginald Dwayne Betts
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Schlagworte: african american poetry • African poetry • american poets • award-winning poets • black poetry • black writers • ghanaian poetry • ghanaian writer • new poetry • poetry collections • Southern poets • southern writers
• ISBN-10: 1-324-07888-X / 132407888X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-324-07888-3 / 9781324078883