An edition of Walking on water (1999)

Walking on water

Black American lives at the turn of the twenty-first century

1st ed.
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An edition of Walking on water (1999)

Walking on water

Black American lives at the turn of the twenty-first century

1st ed.
  • 1 Currently reading

Walking on Water is an account of the thoughts, the feelings, the lives, of African Americans in the post-Civil Rights era of the nineties. Traversing the country over a period of six years, Randall Kenan talked to nearly two hundred African Americans, whose individual stories he has shaped into a continent-sized tapestry of black American life today.

He starts his journey in the famous, long-standing black resort community on Martha's Vineyard, travels up through New England, and heads west, visiting Chicago, Minneapolis (home of the singer Prince and of the Pilgrim Baptist Church, with its seven choirs and vast outreach), Coeur d'Alene (skinhead capital of the world), Seattle, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas. He moves on to the South, to Louisiana and St.

Simons Island, where so many slave ships landed, and ends up at home in North Carolina, telling his own family's story.

Publish Date
Language
English
Pages
668

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Cover of: Walking on Water
Walking on Water: Black American Lives at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century
February 22, 2000, Vintage
Paperback in English
Cover of: Walking on Water
Walking on Water: Black American Lives at The Turn of The Twenty-First Century
1999, Alfred A. Knopf, Distributed by Random House
Hardcover in English
Cover of: Walking on water
Walking on water: Black American lives at the turn of the twenty-first century
1999, Knopf, Distributed by Random House
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: Walking on Water
Walking on Water: Black American Lives at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century
1999, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
in English

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [645]-660) and index.

Published in
New York
Genre
Interviews., Anecdotes.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
305.8/00973
Library of Congress
E185.615 .K375 1999, E185.615.K375 1999

The Physical Object

Pagination
xii, 668 p. ;
Number of pages
668

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Open Library
OL379591M
ISBN 10
0679408274, 067973788X
LCCN
98041730
Library Thing
1039436
Goodreads
2444112
136817

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