What Black People Should Do Now: Dispatches from Near the Vanguard - Hardcover

Wiley, Ralph

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0345380452 ISBN 13: 9780345380456

Publisher: Ballantine Books, 1993

Synopsis

A collection of pieces on race, culture, politics, and black survival confronts the realities of African-American life, from the Rodney King beating to the challenges of multiculturalism.

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From the Inside Flap:

Wiley continues to do what few other writers are doing today. His insights, humor, brashness and intelligence are a welcome read."
Spike Lee
Ralph Wiley is a troublemaker. His controversial debut as a critic of popular American culture, WHY BLACK PEOPLE TEND TO SHOUT, received wide acclaim. With WHAT BLACK PEOPLE SHOULD DO NOW, Ralph Wiley dons the mantle of Frederick Douglass, Richard Wright, and James Baldwin, in a voice that fuses oral history with the Mississippi Delta traditions of Mark Twain and Peter Taylor. In twenty-two explosive essays, he takes an unblinking and ironic look at African-American life, and fulfills the role of artist as agitator. For Wiley, good intentions are not enough. He writes to stimulate the synapses in the brain, and he delivers food for thought that leaves the mouth burning.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0345380452
• ISBN 13: 9780345380456
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 374