Walking on Water
Black American Lives at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century
by Randall Kenan
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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.
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Travel, United States, Canada, African Americans, Interviews, Race identity, Race relations, Anecdotes, Description and travel, Afro-Americans, Journeys, New York Times reviewed, Social conditions, United states, race relations, Canada, race relations, African americans, race identity, Canada, description and travel, United states, description and travelPeople
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Walking on Water: Black American Lives at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century
February 22, 2000, Vintage
Paperback
in English
067973788X 9780679737889
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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
0679408274 9780679408277
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Walking on water: Black American lives at the turn of the twenty-first century
1999, Knopf, Distributed by Random House
in English
- 1st ed.
0679408274 9780679408277
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Walking on Water: Black American Lives at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century
1999, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
in English
0316911127 9780316911122
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