Walking on water : Black American lives at the turn of the twenty-first century
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- ISBN: 0679408274
- ISBN: 9780679408277
- ISBN: 067973788X (pbk.)
- ISBN: 9780679737889 (pbk.)
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xii, 668 p. ; 25 cm. - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1999.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [645]-660) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
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