A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib

A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance

Hanif Abdurraqib

300 pages first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction art essays history race emotional reflective slow-paced

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I say I love my people and mean there is a language that is only ours, and within that language there is shelter. But when I speak that language in the world, I know how eager the world might be to bend it to its own desires.From breakout writer a...

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