Jesse McCarthy
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
After a chance encounter with an ex-NBA player with his own regrets, recent college graduate Jonah Winters, unsure of what's next, heads to Brazil where he slowly forms an understanding of self, community, and freedom that is rarely afforded to young black men.
Author
Language
English
Description
A landmark work of cultural criticism that will help define a generation, Jesse McCarthy's Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul? travels nimbly from Ta-Nehisi Coates's case for reparations and Toni Morrison's revolutionary humanism to D'Angelo's simmering blend of R&B and racial justice, investigating with virtuosic intensity the art, music, literature, and political stances that have defined the twenty-first century. -- Cover page 4.
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A new Penguin Classics series that recovers and rediscovers the work of African American poets from the 19th and 20th centuries, curated by Joshua Bennett and Jesse McCarthy As scholars of African American literature and cultural history, Bennett and McCarthy repeatedly find themselves struck by the number of exciting poets they come across in long-out-of-print collections and forgotten journals, whose work has been neglected and, in some cases,...
Author
Publisher
Steerforth Press
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Set in Kansas City, Missouri, during the Jazz Age of the 1920s and ’30s, Such Sweet Thunder is a majestic evocation of childhood and parental love told through the eyes of a remarkable boy, Amerigo Jones. This vivid portrait of an era marred by racial segregation and relentless, daily injustices is nonetheless rendered with love and longing for a time and place that was enriched by a vibrant, burgeoning, and widely influential African
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