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The boy is teased for looking different than the other kids. His skin is darker, his hair curlier. He tells his mother he wishes he could be more like everyone else. And she helps him to see how beautiful he really, truly is. For years before they both achieved acclaim in their respective professions, good friends Taye Diggs and Shane W. Evans wanted to collaborate on Chocolate Me!, a book based on experiences of being African American, feeling different...
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New York Review of Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Advance uncorrected proofs.
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273 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
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"Before Charles Johnson found fame as a novelist and won the National Book Award for Middle Passage in 1991, he was a cartoonist, and a very good one. Beginning in the late 1960s, Johnson reimagined the gag comic as a powerful and incendiary tool, and tackled America's mid-century afflictions--segregation, inner-city poverty, police brutality, and white supremacy--by subverting stale gag topes. He populated them with bullet-dodging Black Panthers,...
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