What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker by Damon Young
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About What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker by Damon Young :

From the cofounder of VerySmartBrothas.com, and one of the most read writers on race and culture at work today, a provocative and humorous memoir-in-essays that explores the ever-shifting definitions of what it means to be black (and male) in America
For Damon Young, there is a particular neurosis to being black in America today. One where Did that happen because I'm black? If this is happening because I'm black, how am I supposed to react-as a professional black person? are questions that play on a loop in his mind, every day of every week.
Combining a provocative sense of humor with an unapologetic look at race and racism, What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker chronicles Young's attempt to answer these questions, and explores how these queries-and the angsts and anxieties they induce-both create and constrict our ideas of blackness and what it means to be a man.
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