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Black boy out of time : a memoir
- Title
- Black boy out of time : a memoir / Hari Ziyad.
- Author
- Ziyad, Hari
- Publication
- New York : Little A, [2021]
- ©2021
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Details
- Description
- 295 pages : illustrations; 21 cm
- Summary
- "An eloquent, restless, and enlightening memoir by one of the most thought-provoking journalists today about growing up Black and queer in America, reuniting with the past, and coming of age their own way. One of nineteen children in a blended family, Hari Ziyad was raised by a Hindu Hare Kṛiṣhṇa mother and a Muslim father. Through reframing their own coming-of-age story, Ziyad takes readers on a powerful journey of growing up queer and Black in Cleveland, Ohio, and of navigating the equally complex path toward finding their true self in New York City. Exploring childhood, gender, race, and the trust that is built, broken, and repaired through generations, Ziyad investigates what it means to live beyond the limited narratives Black children are given and challenges the irreconcilable binaries that restrict them. Heartwarming and heart-wrenching, radical and reflective, Hari Ziyad's vital memoir is for the outcast, the unheard, the unborn, and the dead. It offers us a new way to think about survival and the necessary disruption of social norms. It looks back in tenderness as well as justified rage, forces us to address where we are now, and, born out of hope, illuminates the possibilities for the future." -- Publisher's description.
- Subject
- Ziyad, Hari
- Gender-nonconforming people > Biography
- African American sexual minorities > Biography
- African American screenwriters > Biography
- African American editors > Biography
- Gender-nonconforming people's writings
- Gay liberation movement > United States
- Sexual minorities > United States
- Queer theory > United States
- African American sexual minorities
- Gender-nonconforming people
- African American screenwriters
- African American editors
- Genre/Form
- Autobiographies.
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Prologue : Misafropedia -- Canto I : Black. Carceral dissonance ; A prayer for my father ; Nowalaters ; A prayer for rest ; D*mb smart -- Canto II : Queer. A prayer for limitlessness ; Guilt and gods ; A prayer for another world ; Representation matters? ; A prayer for choice ; My gender is black ; A prayer for new language ; Logging out of passport Twitter -- Canto III : Free. A prayer for healing ; Trigger warning ; A prayer for freedom ; If we must die ; A prayer for courage ; Abolition -- Epilogue : A prayer for my grandmother.
- Call Number
- Sc D 22-109
- ISBN
- 9781542091329
- 1542091322
- 9781542091312
- 1542091314
- OCLC
- 1190836631
- Author
- Ziyad, Hari, author.
- Title
- Black boy out of time : a memoir / Hari Ziyad.
- Publisher
- New York : Little A, [2021]
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Note
- Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 22-109