Sure, I'll be your Black friend : notes from the other side of the fist bump / Ben Philippe.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780063026445
- ISBN: 0063026449
- ISBN: 9780063065062
- ISBN: 0063065061
- Physical Description: xvi, 300 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2021]
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-300). |
Formatted Contents Note: | Sure, I'll be your Black tell-all writer -- Ten things to know before befriending me, or "which Black guy are you getting?" -- The first gift -- Sure, I'll be your Black Canadian -- Sure, I'll be your Black foreign kid -- Sure, I'll be your anchor baby -- Sure, I'll be your Black son -- Sure, I'll be your Black boyfriend -- How to go through life without drowning, part I -- Sure, I guess I'll be your classic name-brand cookie -- How to go through life without drowning, part II -- Boomerangs come back -- From another mother -- I was promised ballplayers and rap stars, addicted to the limelight -- Sure, I'll be your woke Black friend -- Sherman Klump v. Buddy love -- Ivory skin, eyes of something green -- Sister, sister -- Sure, I'll be your Black guy : emphasis on Guy -- How to go through life without drowning, part III -- Song of the South -- Sure, I'll be your accessory to larceny -- Sure, I'll be your one that got away -- Black ghost goes "boo!" -- Sure, I'll be your Black sidekick -- Sure, I'll be your 2016 shithole rescapee -- Smile through it -- How to live strictly in common grounds -- Sure, I'll be your Bl--RACE WARS!!! -- One of the good ones -- Conclusion. How to thrive in a Black body at any age -- Lexicon to a Black experience narrative. |
Summary, etc.: | In an era in which "I have many black friends" is often a medal of wokeness, Ben hilariously chronicles the experience of being on the receiving end of those fist bumps. He takes us through his immigrant childhood, from wanting nothing more than friends to sit with at lunch, to his awkward teenage years, to college in the age of Obama, and on to adulthood during the Trump administration--two sides of the same American coin. Ben takes his role as your new Black friend seriously, providing original and borrowed wisdom on stereotypes, slurs, the whole "swimming thing," how much Beyoncé is too much Beyoncé, Black Girl Magic, the rise of the Karens, affirmative action, the Black Lives Matter movement, and other conversations you might want to have with your new BBFF. Sure, I'll Be Your Black Friend is a conversational take on topics both light and heavy, universal, and deeply personal that reveal incisive truths about the need for connection in all of us. -- From dust jacket. |
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Genre: | Essays. Autobiographies. Humor. Biographies. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Silas Bronson Library.
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Silas Bronson Library - Waterbury | B PHILIPPE, B PHI (Text) | 34005150472594 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
Sure, I'll Be Your Black Friend : Notes from the Other Side of the Fist Bump
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Sure, I'll Be Your Black Friend : Notes from the Other Side of the Fist Bump
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a good white person of liberal leanings must be in want of a Black friend. In the biting, hilarious vein of What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker and We Are Never Meeting in Real Life comes Ben Philippe's candid memoir-in-essays, chronicling a lifetime of being the Black friend (see also: foreign kid, boyfriend, coworker, student, teacher, roommate, enemy) in predominantly white spaces. In an era in which "I have many black friends" is often a medal of Wokeness, Ben hilariously chronicles the experience of being on the receiving end of those fist bumps. He takes us through his immigrant childhood, from wanting nothing more than friends to sit with at lunch, to his awkward teenage years, to college in the age of Obama, and adulthood in the Trump administration--two sides of the same American coin. Ben takes his role as your new black friend seriously, providing original and borrowed wisdom on stereotypes, slurs, the whole "swimming thing," how much Beyoncé is too much Beyoncé, Black Girl Magic, the rise of the Karens, affirmative action, the Black Lives Matter movement, and other conversations you might want to have with your new BBFF. Oscillating between the impulse to be "one of the good ones" and the occasional need to excuse himself to the restrooms, stuff his mouth with toilet paper, and scream, Ben navigates his own Blackness as an "Oreo" with too many opinions for his father's liking, an encyclopedic knowledge of CW teen dramas, and a mouth he can't always control. From cheating his way out of swim tests to discovering stray family members in unlikely places, he finds the punchline in the serious while acknowledging the blunt truths of existing as a Black man in today's world. Extremely timely, Sure, I'll Be Your Black Friend is a conversational take on topics both light and heavy, universal and deeply personal, which reveals incisive truths about the need for connection in all of us.