Angry black white boy, or, The miscegenation of Macon Detornay: a novel
✍ Scribed by Adam Mansbach
- Book ID
- 100170419
- Publisher
- Crown/Archetype;Three Rivers Press
- Year
- 2007;2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 219 KB
- Edition
- 1st ed
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0307419797
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
From the acclaimed author of Shackling Water comes the first great race novel of the twenty-first century, an incendiary and ruthlessly funny satire about violence, pop culture, and American identity.
Macon Detornay is a suburban white boy possessed and politicized by black culture, and filled with rage toward white America. After moving to New York City for college, Macon begins robbing white passengers in his taxicab, setting off a manhunt for the black man presumed to be committing the crimes. When his true identity is revealed, Macon finds himself to be a celebrity and makes use of the spotlight to hold forth on the evils and invisibility of whiteness. Soon he launches the Race Traitor Project, a stress-addled collective that attracts guilty liberals, wannabe gangstas, and bandwagon riders from all over the country to participate in a Day of Apology--a day set aside for white people to make amends for four hundred years of oppression. The Day of Apology pushes...
✦ Subjects
Fiction