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100 1 $aKenan, Randall.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n87852434
245 10 $aWalking on water :$bBlack American lives at the turn of the twenty-first century /$cby Randall Kenan.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bA.A. Knopf,$c1999.
263 $a9902
300 $axii, 670 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
505 00 $g1.$tPrologue: Come Out the Wilderness --$g2.$tMartha's Vineyard, Massachusetts: Once Upon an Eden --$g3.$tBurlington, Vermont: Where Two or Three Are Gathered in My Name --$g4.$tBangor, Maine: Many Hundreds Gone --$g5.$tBuffalo, New York: Lake Effect --$g6.$tIdlewild, Michigan: The Snowbirds --$g7.$tMadison, Wisconsin: Something Like the Future --$g8.$tChicago, Illinois: My Own Private Chicago --$g9.$tSt. Paul/Minneapolis, Minnesota: What Is the Question? --$g10.$tGrand Forks, North Dakota: "How Old Would You Be If You Didn't Know How Old You Was?" --$g11.$tCoeur d'Alene, Idaho: Fight No More Forever --$g12.$tMaidstone and North Battleford, Saskatchewan: By the Big Gulley --$g13.$tAnchorage, Alaska: Cold Hands and Fiery Hearts --$g14.$tSeattle, Washington: City on the Edge of Forever --$g15.$tSan Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles and Allensworth, California: The There There --$g16.$tLas Vegas, Nevada: The American City --$g17.$tSalt Lake City, Utah: Upon This Desert --
505 80 $g18.$tCheyenne, Wyoming: And Still I Rise --$g19.$tDenver, Colorado: Destiny Made Manifest --$g20.$tLafayette, Louisiana: Zydeco Who? --$g21.$tAtlanta and St. Simons Island, Georgia: Walking on Water --$g22.$tCyberspace, North Carolina: Where Am I Black? --$g23.$tNew York, New York: Blackness on My Mind.
520 $aWalking 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.
520 8 $aHe 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.
520 8 $aSimons Island, where so many slave ships landed, and ends up at home in North Carolina, telling his own family's story.
651 0 $aUnited States$xRace relations$vAnecdotes.
651 0 $aCanada$xRace relations$vAnecdotes.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$vInterviews.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009114023
651 0 $aUnited States$xDescription and travel.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139993
651 0 $aCanada$xDescription and travel.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85019293
600 10 $aKenan, Randall$xTravel$zUnited States.
600 10 $aKenan, Randall$xTravel$zCanada.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$xRace identity.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001973
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