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Pinckney, Darryl, 1953- author.

Busted in New York and other essays / Darryl Pinckney ; foreword by Zadie Smith.

First edition.

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.

xxvi, 384 pages ; 22 cm

In these 25 essays, Pinckney gives readers a view of recent racial history that blends the social and the personal and wonders how society arrived at this current moment. Pinckney reminds readers that "white supremacy isn't back; it never went away."

United States -- Race relations.

Race discrimination -- United States.

African Americans -- Social conditions.

Essays. Selections

Foreword: thus far on the way / by Zadie Smith -- Slouching toward Washington -- Busted in New York -- Beyond the fringe -- Dreams from Obama -- Obama and the black church -- What he really said -- Deep in the bowl -- Invisible black America -- In Ferguson -- Black lives and the police -- Pilot me -- Austere and lonely offices -- The great puzzle -- The Afro pessimist temptation -- Paris: the black maestro -- On your own in Russia -- How I got over -- Banjo -- The real Harlem -- The genius of blackness -- Black master -- Looking at Selma -- Under the spell of James Baldwin -- Moon over Miami -- Miss Aretha Franklin.

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