kell_xavi's review against another edition
5.0
I would like him to tell me if he thinks accomplishment is a peculiar outcome of the Black experience.
Kei Miller writes thoughtful, observant essays that take in the histories and politics of Jamaican and the Afro/Caribbean diaspora. These experiences collect into stories about family, queerness, violence, and identity, about home and about fear, about carnival and brutality, and about how we face events with our whole bodies and their whole histories of being.
I sorry for the histories that haunt all of us. I so sorry for all them things that we find difficult to face or to talk about because we wish they wasn’t real.
On traveling in Kenya: It is as if she is saying, but really, what kind of a mother is this who has taken this boy to be raised in another country but never taught him his mother tongue?… he cannot even speak to us… and I think, oh mame, if you just replace that word mother with history, then you would be correct. For really, what kind of history is this?
Kei Miller writes thoughtful, observant essays that take in the histories and politics of Jamaican and the Afro/Caribbean diaspora. These experiences collect into stories about family, queerness, violence, and identity, about home and about fear, about carnival and brutality, and about how we face events with our whole bodies and their whole histories of being.
I sorry for the histories that haunt all of us. I so sorry for all them things that we find difficult to face or to talk about because we wish they wasn’t real.
On traveling in Kenya: It is as if she is saying, but really, what kind of a mother is this who has taken this boy to be raised in another country but never taught him his mother tongue?… he cannot even speak to us… and I think, oh mame, if you just replace that word mother with history, then you would be correct. For really, what kind of history is this?
Content Warnings
Graphic: Racism, Police brutality, and Homophobia
Moderate: Gun violence and Sexual assault
Minor: Pedophilia, Incest, Slavery, and Suicide
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