Walking on water : Black American lives at the turn of the twenty-first century / Randall Kenan.
| Author/creator | Kenan, Randall author. |
| Other author | Mazal Holocaust Collection |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication | New York : Knopf, 1999. |
| Distribution | New York : Distributed by Random House |
| Description | xii, 668 pages ; 25 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Sample text |
| Supplemental Content | Contributor biographical information |
| Supplemental Content | Publisher description |
| Supplemental Content | Program air date: April 25, 1999 |
| Subjects |
| Contents | 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. |
| Abstract | 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. |
| Local note | Little--305131070034R |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 645-660) and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Kenan, Randall. Walking on water. 1st ed. New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1999 |
| Genre/form | Interviews. |
| Genre/form | Anecdotes. |
| Genre/form | Anecdotes. |
| Genre/form | Interviews. |
| LCCN | 98041730 |
| ISBN | 0679408274 |
| ISBN | 9780679408277 |
| ISBN | 067973788X (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 9780679737889 (pbk.) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | E185.615 .K375 1999 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |