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Walking on Water
Randall Kenan
其他書名
Black American Lives at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century
出版Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1999
主題History / United States / 21st CenturyPolitical Science / American Government / GeneralSocial Science / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black StudiesSocial Science / Anthropology / Cultural & SocialSocial Science / Sociology / GeneralSocial Science / Race & Ethnic RelationsTravel / Canada / GeneralTravel / United States / General
ISBN067973788X9780679737889
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=jnt2AAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋"A meaningful panoramic view of what it means to be human...Cause for celebration." --Times-Picayune

From the author of the National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Let the Dead Bury Their Dead comes a moving, cliché-shattering group portrait of African Americans at the turn of the twenty-first century.

In a hypnotic blend of oral history and travel writing, Randall Kenan sets out to answer a question that has 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 marvellously sharp, full picture of contemporary African American lives and experiences.