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Bourgeois Blues
Jake Lamar
其他書名
An American Memoir
出版Plume, 1992
主題Biography & Autobiography / GeneralBiography & Autobiography / Editors, Journalists, PublishersSocial Science / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies
ISBN04522691139780452269118
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=GAPzAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Jake Lamar's powerful and evocative memoir is a multi-dimensional story about growing up black and middle class in America. One strand of Lamar's narrative depicts how he violated stereotypes; attending Harvard, becoming the youngest writer ever hired by Time magazine, dating white women. But at the heart of this disturbing story is Lamar's relationship with his father, a self-made man who grew up in a terrible poverty in Jim Crow Georgia and scratched and clawed his way to success against the odds-only to become an inwardly tormented tyrant terrorizing his wife and children. Bourgeois blues is not a book with easy answers. What Jake Lamar does offer, though, is a fiercely honest picture of what it means, and costs, to be black in America today. --Book cover.