Sure, I'll Be Your Black Friend: Notes from the Other Side of the Fist Bump
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Book Overview It is a truthuniversally acknowledged that a good white person of liberal leanings must bein want of a Black friend.In the biting, hilari...
It is a truth
universally acknowledged that a good white person of liberal leanings must be
in want of a Black friend.
In the biting, hilarious vein of What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker and We Are Never Meeting in Real Life comes Ben Philippe's candid memoir-in-essays, chronicling a lifetime of being the Black friend (see also: foreign kid, boyfriend, coworker, student, teacher, roommate, enemy) in predominantly white spaces.
In an era in which "I have many black friends" is often a medal of Wokeness, Ben hilariously chronicles the experience of being on the receiving end of those fist bumps. He takes us through his immigrant childhood, from wanting nothing more than friends to sit with at lunch, to his awkward teenage years, to college in the age of Obama, and adulthood in the Trump administration--two sides of the same American coin.
Ben takes his role as your new black friend seriously, providing original and borrowed wisdom on stereotypes, slurs, the whole "swimming thing," how much Beyonc
Book Details Format: Paperback | Pages: 300 | Language: English | Publisher: PERENNIAL | ISBN: 0063026449
FormatPaperback
Pages300
LanguageEnglish
ISBN0063026449
EAN9780063026445
PublisherPERENNIAL
Publication Date2021-04-27
AccessoriesNo Accessory
ConditionNew
Product TypeQUALITY PAPERBACK BOOKS
Weight0.5 Pounds
Length8.0 Inches
Width5.3 Inches
Height0.9 Inches
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