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03177aam a22004938i 4500 001 318BDA220A9B11EA8B2E862297128E48 003 SILO 005 20191119010252 008 190703t20192019nyua 000 0deng c 010 $a 2019007819 020 $a 1590519051 020 $a 9781590519059 035 $a (OCoLC)1086529988 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d OCL $d OCLCQ $d YDX $d OCLCQ $d IOU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PS3570.H59683 $b Z46 2019 082 00 $a B $a B $2 23 100 1 $a Thompson, Clifford, $e author. 245 10 $a What it is : $b race, family, and one thinking Black man's blues / $c Clifford Thompson. 246 3 $a Race, family, and one thinking Black man's blues 264 1 $a New York : $b Other Press, $c [2019] 300 $a 163 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 21 cm 520 $a "An African-American writer's concise, heartfelt take on the state of his nation, exploring the war between the values he has always held and the reality with which he is confronted in twenty-first-century America. In the tradition of James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time and Ta-Nehisi Coates's Between the World and Me comes Clifford Thompson's What It Is. Thompson was raised to believe in treating every person of every color as an individual, and he decided as a young man that America, despite its history of racial oppression, was his home as much as anyone else's. As a middle-aged, happily married father of biracial children, Thompson finds himself questioning his most deeply held convictions when the race-baiting Donald Trump ascends to the presidency -- elected by whites, whom Thompson had refused to judge as a group, and who make up the majority in this country Thompson had called his own. In the grip of contradictory emotions, Thompson turns for guidance to the wisdom of writers he admires while knowing that the answers to his questions about America ultimately lie in America itself. Through interviews with a small but varied group of Americans he hears sharply divergent opinions about what is happening in the country while trying to find his own answers -- conclusions based not on conventional wisdom or on what he would like to believe, but on what he sees"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Thompson, Clifford. 600 10 $a Thompson, Clifford $x Political and social views. 600 10 $a Trump, Donald, $d 1946- $x Public opinion. 650 0 $a African American authors $v Biography. 650 0 $a African Americans $x Social conditions $y 1975- 650 0 $a African Americans $x Race identity. 650 0 $a Whites $z United States $x Attitudes. 651 0 $a United States $x Race relations. 651 0 $a United States $x Social conditions $y 21st century. 655 7 $a Essays. $2 lcgft 941 $a 7 952 $l ALPE516 $d 20240417015124.0 952 $l BNPD611 $d 20210323031305.0 952 $l AAPF906 $d 20200818011029.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20200806025138.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20200222010442.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20200103011402.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20191119030623.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=318BDA220A9B11EA8B2E862297128E48 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search