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Busted in New York & Other Essays - with an introduction by Zadie Smith (Paperback)
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Busted in New York & Other Essays - with an introduction by Zadie Smith (Paperback)
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'[Pinckney] reveals himself to be a skilful chronicler of black
experience in literary criticism, reportage and biography' The New
York Times In these twenty-five essays, Darryl Pinckney has given
us a view of our recent racial history that blends the social and
the personal and wonders how we arrived at our current moment.
Pinckney reminds us that "white supremacy isn't back; it never went
away." It is this impulse to see historically that is at the core
of Busted in New York and Other Essays, which traces the lineage of
black intellectual history from Booker T. Washington through the
Harlem Renaissance, to the Black Panther Party and the turbulent
sixties, to today's Afro-pessimists, and celebrated and neglected
thinkers in between. These are capacious essays whose topics range
from the grassroots of protest in Ferguson, Missouri, to the
eighteenth-century Guadeloupian composer Joseph Bologne, from an
unsparing portrait of Louis Farrakhan to the enduring legacy of
James Baldwin, the unexpected story of Black people experiencing
Russia, Barry Jenkins's Moonlight, and the painter Kara Walker. The
essays themselves are a kind of record, many of them written in
real-time, as Pinckney witnesses the Million Man March, feels and
experiences the highs and lows of Obama's first presidential
campaign, explores the literary Black diaspora, and reflects on the
surprising and severe lesson he learned firsthand about the
changing urban fabric of New York. As Zadie Smith writes in her
introduction to the book: "How lucky we are to have Darryl Pinckney
who, without rancor, without insult, has, all these years, been
taking down our various songs, examining them with love and care,
and bringing them back from the past, like a Sankofa bird, for our
present examination. These days Sankofas like Darryl are rare.
Treasure him!
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