
What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker
A Memoir in Essays
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Damon Young
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Damon Young
A Finalist for the NAACP Image Award
Longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay
An NPR Best Book of the Year
A Washington Independent Review of Books Favorite of the Year
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, 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.”
At its most devastating, it provides him reason to believe 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.
©2019 Damon Young (P)2019 HarperCollins PublishersInterview: Listen in as Damon Young talks about what it meant to hold both his childhood and current ideas of black masculinity up to the light in his insightful and funny memoir, What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker. Note: Portions of this interview contain mature language.
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My only criticism: His enunciation is horrible lol. Some of his words mush together as he reads somewhat quickly. Its easy to ignore about 98% of the time. But there are some words you wish you could get the full enunciation.
Awesome Insight into the Black American Male
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Damon Young is hilarious
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Funny and vulnerable
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This book was an actual revelation. For anyone who has experienced the marvelous, terrifying, intersectional existence of being black… this book speaks to you. This book is for you. Throughout the book we see Damon divulge his proud moments, his shameful moments, and so many aspects of his life Always framed in the Lin's of being black, and how that blackness exists and is impacted by whiteness. I have never read a memoir that made me laugh out loud so often, and so heartily as this one did! There are many points in the book where you are rooting for Damon and hoping-- as if he is some scripted protagonist--that he gets his life.
This book does an incredible job of emphasizing how exhausting it is to be black in America. So many times in the book we hear Damon perseverate over myriad anxieties… whether those be in, how his blackness is perceived by others, how he perceives his blackness, or the realities of how that blackness can and does impact him, his family and everyone that looks like him. Still, through it all, he manages to keep a witty perspective which is both sobering and refreshing in the face of the world we live in.
This was TRULY a pleasure to read.
Never has a title been truer
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Didn't kill me
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Required Reading !
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I loved this! I needed this and know of countless people that need it too
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A true gem of a book.
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Underestimated
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Black People
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