Title

Walking on water: Black American lives at the turn of the twenty-first century.

Description

Randall Kenan's depictions of African American life.

Identifier

782865

679408274

Creator

Kenan, Randall

Format

1st ed.

Source

Brian Lamb Booknotes Collection

Gift of Brian Lamb, 2011.

Catalog record

Language

eng

Date

1999

Program air date: April 25, 1999

Publisher

Knopf

George Mason University. Libraries. Special Collections & Archives

Subject

"Kenan, Randall--Travel--United States."

"Kenan, Randall--Travel--Canada."

"African Americans--Interviews."

"African Americans--Race identity."

Relation

Original Booknotes interview

Rights

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Transcription of Annotations
Notes on front endpapers and fly sheet: Why do you take so much pleasure in Star Trek. At the end I had 5000 pages of material p 635. What does it mean to be black? (6 periods of Black History p. 498) Malcolm X/Martin L. King; Booker T. WASH/WEB DuBois. Dora Brain--Martha U. 1st interview. Richard--p 629 late night talk about traveling the country Richard Wimberly. Mary Ellen Pleasant. The Irwins--Nell Irwin Painter. Movie junky--5 in one day. Bangor-pop. peaked 439 in 63-Gerald Talbot. Never felt more at home than in New Orleans. ALCAN highway built by black men. Coeur d'Alene, Idaho--Walt Washington- ex-cop salesman p 229. Anchorage, Alaska-Walter Furnaces-Alaska Repub Legislation. Jasimine Pennywell- p 285-high school student essay on racism. Denver, Colorado p 467. Hue-man experience bookstore--Clara Villarosa. St Paul, Minneapolis--did you interview Prince. Bangor, Maine--Sterling Dymond (p 79) the terms African-American p 84. Gerald Talbot (p 89). The Snowbirds. Idlewald, Mich--(p 124) 10 miles north of Grand Rapids. Calvin and Patricia Cormier--black resort DuBois was an early booster of the place. Cheyenne, Wyoming--p 451. Senator Harriet Elizabeth Byrd. Why don't we know about Barney Ford-died in 1926. List of unknowns p 465. Martha's Vineyard--p 21 Where is Oak Bluffs. Dora Grain--my first interviews. Las Vegas--Edith Jackson p 402--Statement on Black man vs. White man. Salt Lake City ( p 422) Alberta Henry and NAACP meeting More statement on Negroes p 435. Grand Forks, N. Dakota--T. Scott Pegues (p 203). Notes/Underlinings: Lamb underlined geographic locations on chapter titles on the Contents pages. Book explores what it means to be an African American. Childhood in North Carolina, mentions Black Heroes such as George Washington Carver, Booker T. Washington, Harriet Tubman, Mary McCleod Bethune, Martin Luther King. "Sonya Stone I should become a writer," "1985 NYC," literary influences. Race on Martha's Vineyard. Dora Grain. Black Bourgeoisie, black middle class. Dorothy West. Blacks in Vermont, Bangor, Maine--Stephen King. Not many blacks in New England. Buffalo, NY. Idlewild, Michigan. Lamb underlines information about black communities throughout the US, blacks living in those communities and their experiences.