A Drop of Midnight - A Memoir (Paperback)

World-renowned hip-hop artist Jason “Timbuktu� Diakité’s vivid and intimate journey through his own and his family’s history—from South Carolina slavery to twenty-first-century Sweden. Born to interracial American parents in Sweden, Jason Diakité grew up between worlds—part Swedish, American, black, white, Cherokee, Slovak, and German, riding a delicate cultural and racial divide. It was a no-man’s-land that left him in constant search of self. Even after his hip-hop career took off, Jason fought to unify a complex system of family roots that branched across continents, ethnicities, classes, colors, and eras to find a sense of belonging. In A Drop of Midnight, Jason draws on conversations with his parents, personal experiences, long-lost letters, and pilgrimages to South Carolina and New York to paint a vivid picture of race, discrimination, family, and ambition. His ancestors’ origins as slaves in the antebellum South, his parents’ struggles as an interracial couple, and his own world-expanding connection to hip-hop helped him fashion a strong black identity in Sweden. What unfolds in Jason’s remarkable voyage of discovery is a complex and unflinching look at not only his own history but also that of generations affected by the trauma of the African diaspora, then and now.

General

Imprint:	Amazoncrossing
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	February 2020
First published:	2020
Authors:	Jason Diakite
Translators:	Rachel Willson-Broyles
Dimensions:	139 x 209 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	304
ISBN-13:	978-1-5420-1670-4
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > General Books > Music > General
LSN:	1-5420-1670-3
Barcode:	9781542016704

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