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Who's Afraid of a Large Black Man?
Charles Barkley
Race, Power, Fame, Identity, and Why Everyone Should Read My Book
Riverhead
January 2006
272 pages ISBN: 1594482055 Trade Size (reprint)
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Non-Fiction Biography
Who's afraid to talk on the record about the way things
really are in this country where race is concerned? Not
Charles Barkley, and now, thanks to him, not a host of other
important people who carry a wealth of wisdom with them,
from Bill Clinton and Barack Obama to Samuel L. Jackson,
Tiger Woods and Ice Cube. This is the most personal and
important book Charles Barkley has written. He lays himself
open here, and because he does, he brings the same straight
talk out of everyone with whom he engages in his journey
around America to talk about the things that matter most
that are the hardest to say - things having to do with race,
and money, and identity. Why is it that we can all talk
about all sorts of big issues, but when the subject of race
is raised, we all freeze up? Who but Charles Barkley can put
us into the passenger seat next to him for one of the most
fantastic American road trips in recent memory? Who's Afraid
of a Large Black Man is so surprising, challenging, and
entertaining, so compelling to read, that its importance
sneaks up on you and knocks you clean into another state of
mind. Bold, honest, funny, moving, occasionally
shocking-everything we feel we can't say but it really is
time we did. Only Charles Barkley could make this
conversation happen, and for that alone he is a national
treasure.
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