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A Drop of Midnight: A Memoir
Amazon Crossing
ISBN13:
9781542016704
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World-renowned hip-hop artist Jason "Timbuktu" Diakité's vivid and intimate journey through his own and his family's history--from South Carolina slavery to twenty-first-century Sweden. Born to interracial American parents in Sweden, Jason Diakité grew up between worlds--part Swedish, American, black, white, Cherokee, Slovak, and German, riding a delicate cultural and racial divide. It was a no-man's-land that left him in constant search of self. Even after his hip-hop career took off, Jason fought to unify a complex system of family roots that branched across continents, ethnicities, classes, colors, and eras to find a sense of belonging. In A Drop of Midnight, Jason draws on conversations with his parents, personal experiences, long-lost letters, and pilgrimages to South Carolina and New York to paint a vivid picture of race, discrimination, family, and ambition. His ancestors' origins as slaves in the antebellum South, his parents' struggles as an interracial couple, and his own world-expanding connection to hip-hop helped him fashion a strong black identity in Sweden. What unfolds in Jason's remarkable voyage of discovery is a complex and unflinching look at not only his own history but also that of generations affected by the trauma of the African diaspora, then and now.
- | Author: Jason Diakit�
- | Publisher: Amazon Crossing
- | Publication Date: March 01, 2020
- | Number of Pages: 303 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1542016703
- | ISBN-13: 9781542016704
- Author:
- Jason Diakit�
- Publisher:
- Amazon Crossing
- Publication Date:
- March 01, 2020
- Number of pages:
- 303 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1542016703
- ISBN-13:
- 9781542016704