Sure I'll be your Black Friend

Notes from the Other Side of the Fist Bump

Sure I'll be your Black Friend

Philippe, Ben

Editorial Harper Perennial
Colección LADYBIRD
Lugar de edición Londres, Gran Bretaña
Fecha de edición abril 2021 · Edición nº 1

Idioma inglés

EAN 9780063026445
320 páginas
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
Dimensiones 135 mm x 203 mm


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In an era in which 'I have many black friends' is often a medal of Wokeness, Ben hilariously chronicles the experience of being on the receiving end of those fist bumps. He takes us through his immigrant childhood, from wanting nothing more than friends to sit with at lunch, to his awkward teenage years, to college in the age of Obama, and adulthood in the Trump administration'two sides of the same American coin.

Ben takes his role as your new black friend seriously, providing original and borrowed wisdom on stereotypes, slurs, the whole 'swimming thing,' how much Beyoncé is too much Beyoncé, Black Girl Magic, the rise of the Karens, affirmative action, the Black Lives Matter movement, and other conversations you might want to have with your new BBFF.

Oscillating between the impulse to be "one of the good ones" and the occasional need to excuse himself to the restrooms, stuff his mouth with toilet paper, and scream, Ben navigates his own Blackness as an "Oreo" with too many opinions for his fathers liking, an encyclopedic knowledge of CW teen dramas, and a mouth he can't always control.

From cheating his way out of swim tests to discovering stray family members in unlikely places, he finds the punchline in the serious while acknowledging the blunt truths of existing as a Black man in todays world.

Extremely timely, Sure, Ill Be Your Black Friend is a conversational take on topics both light and heavy, universal and deeply personal, which reveals incisive truths about the need for connection in all of us.





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