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First edition. |
| Description |
xii, 668 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [645]-660) and index. |
| Contents |
Come out the wilderness -- 1: In Thoreau's backyard -- Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts: once upon an Eden -- Burlington, Vermont: where two or three are gathered in my name -- Bangor, Maine: many hundred gone -- 2: The great big middle -- Buffalo, New York: lake effect -- Idlewild, Michigan: the snowbirds -- Madison, Wisconsin: something like the future -- Chicago, Illinois: my own private Chicago -- St. Paul/Minneapolis, Minnesota: what is the question? -- Grand Forks, North Dakota: "how old would you be if you didn't know how old you was?" -- Coeur d'Alene, Idaho: fight no more forever -- 3: The ice mystique -- Maidstone and North Battleford, Saskatchewan: by the big gulley -- Anchorage, Alaska: cold hands and fiery hearts -- 4: Our still-frontier -- Seattle, Washington: city on the edge of forever -- San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles and Allensworth, California: the there there -- 5: Promised lands -- Las Vegas, Nevada, the American city -- Salt Lake City, Utah: upon this desert -- Cheyenne, Wyoming: and still I rise -- Denver, Colorado: destiny made manifest -- 6: Night song after death -- Lafayette, Louisiana: Zydeco who? -- Atlanta and St. Simons Island, Georgia: walking on water -- 7: Home to a very strange place -- Cyberspace, North Carolina: where am I black? -- New York, New York: blackness on my mind. |
| Subject |
United States -- Race relations -- Anecdotes.
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Canada -- Race relations -- Anecdotes.
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African Americans -- Interviews.
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United States -- Description and travel.
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Canada -- Description and travel.
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Kenan, Randall -- Travel -- United States.
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Kenan, Randall -- Travel -- Canada.
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African Americans -- Race identity.
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| ISBN |
0679408274 |
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067973788X paperback |
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