![]() ![]() 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. 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. ![]() Longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the EssayĪ Washington Independent Review of Books Favorite of the Yearįrom the cofounder of, 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.įor Damon Young, existing while Black is an extreme sport. ![]()
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