Out of America : a black man confronts Africa
Richburg, Keith B.2009
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Total copies: 1
'Out of America' is a potentially explosive and controversial memoir of a black American journalist who is sent to Africa and has to battle between his African racial heritage and his American cultural identity. Nothing in Keith Richburg's long and respected journalistic career at the Washington Post prepared him for what he would encounter as the paper's correspondent in Africa. He found a continent where brutal murder had become routine, where dictators and warlords silenced dissent with machine guns and machetes, and where starvation had become depressingly common. With a great deal of personal anguish, Richburg faced a difficult question: If this is Africa, what does it mean to be an African American? In this provocative and unvarnished account of his three years on the continent of his ancestors, Richburg takes us on a extraordinary journey that sweeps from Somalia to South Africa, showing how he confronted the divide between his African racial heritage and his American cultural identity.
Main title:
Out of America : a black man confronts Africa / Keith B. Richburg.
Author:
Imprint:
New York : BasicBooks, 2009.
Collation:
xxiv, 258 p. : maps ; 21 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: 1997.Includes index.
ISBN:
9780465001880 (pbk)
Dewey class:
306.0967
Language:
English
Subject:
Biography: generalAutobiography: business & industryAfricaUnited States of America, USAEthnic studiesMedia, entertainment, information & communication industriesMemoirsAfrican historySocial & cultural historyRelating to African American peopleAfrica, Sub-Saharan -- Social conditions -- 1960-Human rights -- Africa, Sub-SaharanRichburg, Keith B. -- Travel -- Africa, Sub-SaharanAfrica, Sub-Saharan -- Description and travelSociety
BRN:
532676