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Living (and Dying) While Black in America
HOT Books
September 2015
On Sale: September 8, 2015
180 pages
ISBN: 1510703357
EAN: 9781510703353
Kindle: B0140EFH0O
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction
Searing Dispatches from the Urban Zones Where African
American Men Have Become an Endangered Species
To
many in the age of Obama, America had succeeded in “going
beyond race,” putting the divisions of the past behind us.
And then seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin was shot by a
wannabe cop in Florida; and then eighteen-year-old Michael
Brown in Ferguson, Missouri; and then Baltimore blew up; and
then gunfire shattered a prayer meeting at a church in
Charleston, South Carolina. Suddenly the entire country
awakened to a stark fact: African Americans—particularly
young black men—are an endangered species. Now the country’s urban war zone is brought powerfully to
life by a rising young literary talent, D. Watkins. The
author fought his way up on the east side (the “beast side”)
of Baltimore, Maryland—or “Bodymore, Murderland,” as his
friends call it—surviving murderous business rivals in the
drug trade and equally predatory lawmen. Throughout it all,
he pursued his education, earning a master’s degree from
Johns Hopkins University, while staying rooted in his
community.
When black residents of Baltimore finally
decided they had had enough—after the brutal killing of
twenty-five-year-old Freddie Gray while in police
custody—Watkins was on the streets when the city erupted. He
writes about his bleeding hometown with the razor-sharp
insights of someone who bleeds along with it. Here are true
dispatches from the other side of America.
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