What doesn't kill you makes you blacker : a memoir in essays
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For Damon Young, existing while Black is an extreme sport. The act of possessing black skin while searching for space to breathe in America is enough to induce a ceaseless state of angst where questions such as "How should I react here, as a professional black person?" and "Will this white person's potato salad kill me?" are forever relevant. What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker chronicles Young's efforts to survive while battling and making sense of the various neuroses his country has given him. It's a condition that's sometimes stretched to absurd limits, provoking the angst that made him question if he was any good at the "being straight" thing, as if his sexual orientation was something he could practice and get better at, like a crossover dribble move or knitting; creating the farce where, as a teen, he wished for a white person to call him a racial slur just so he could fight him and have a great story about it; and generating the surreality of watching gentrification transform his Pittsburgh neighborhood from predominantly Black to "Portlandia . . . but with Pierogies." And, at its most devastating, it provides him reason to believe that his mother would be alive today if she were white. From one of our most respected cultural observers, What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker is a hilarious and honest debut that is both a celebration of the idiosyncrasies and distinctions of Blackness and a critique of white supremacy and how we define masculinity.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Young, D., & Young, D. (2019). What doesn't kill you makes you blacker: a memoir in essays (First edition.). Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Young, Damon, 1978- and Damon. Young. 2019. What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays. Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Young, Damon, 1978- and Damon. Young. What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2019.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Young, Damon, and Damon Young. What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays First edition., Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2019.

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