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Here is the superb second edition of the annual anthology devoted to the best nonfiction writing by African American authors—provocative works from an unprecedented and unforgettable year when truth was stranger (and more inspiring) than fiction.
 
The galvanizing election of Barack Obama was on the minds—and the pages—of authors everywhere. Best African American Essays 2010 features the insights of writers from Juan Williams to Kelefa Sanneh and even Obama himself (his seminal speech on race is included here in its entirety). Ta-Nehisi Coates, in The Nation, proclaims that the president has redefined blackness for white America, while Adolph Reed, Jr., in The Progressive, calls him a vacuous opportunist and Colson Whitehead, in The New York Times, lightheartedly revels in the election of someone who looked like me . . . slim. The First Lady is considered, too, as Lauren Collins, in The New Yorker, assesses the radical quality of Michelle Obama's ver

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    A Paperback / softback by Gerald Early, Randall Kennedy, Nikki Giovanni

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      Publisher: Random House USA Inc
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 29/12/2009
      ISBN13: 9780553385373, 978-0553385373
      ISBN10: 0553385372

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Here is the superb second edition of the annual anthology devoted to the best nonfiction writing by African American authors—provocative works from an unprecedented and unforgettable year when truth was stranger (and more inspiring) than fiction.
       
      The galvanizing election of Barack Obama was on the minds—and the pages—of authors everywhere. Best African American Essays 2010 features the insights of writers from Juan Williams to Kelefa Sanneh and even Obama himself (his seminal speech on race is included here in its entirety). Ta-Nehisi Coates, in The Nation, proclaims that the president has redefined blackness for white America, while Adolph Reed, Jr., in The Progressive, calls him a vacuous opportunist and Colson Whitehead, in The New York Times, lightheartedly revels in the election of someone who looked like me . . . slim. The First Lady is considered, too, as Lauren Collins, in The New Yorker, assesses the radical quality of Michelle Obama's ver

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