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Book

How to slowly kill yourself and others in America : essays

Call Number

  • 814 L427S (CEN, OSH)

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Edition

First Scribner trade paperback edition; Revised edition.

Publication Information

New York : Scribner, an imprint of Simon and Schuster, Inc., 2020.

Physical Description

xvi, 159 pages : 22 cm.

Notes

Originally published in 2013.

Contents

  • Author's note #2
  • Mississippi : an awakening, in days
  • What I pledge allegiance to
  • Da art of storytellin' (a prequel)
  • How they do in Oxford
  • Hey Mama: an essay in e-mails
  • Echo : Mychal, Darnell, Kiese, Kai, and Marlon
  • Daydreaming with D'Andre Brown
  • You are the second person
  • Hip hop stole my Southern black boy
  • Our kind of ridiculous
  • How to slowly kill yourself and others in America
  • The worst of white folk
  • We will never ever know.

Subjects

Genres

Essays.