Your generous donation will support Southern Arizona Senior Pride’s programs for LGBTQI+ older people. If you’d like to join us, please email a Zoom invitation. Finalist, National Book Award in Nonfiction Winner, Massachusetts Book Award A Book of the Year pick from Kirkus. We are meeting virtually during the COVID pandemic. How to Make a Slave and Other Essays Jerald Walker. The Senior Pride Book Club meets every third Wednesday of the month from 2:00 to 3:30. Michener fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, Walker is a professor of creative writing at Emerson College. He has published in magazines such as Creative Nonfiction, Harvard Review, The Missouri Review, River Teeth, Mother Jones, The Iowa Review, and Oxford American, and he has been widely anthologized, including five times in Best American Essays. The recipient of the University of Texas at Austin’s James A. Jerald Walker is the author of The World in Flames: A Black Boyhood in a White Supremacist Doomsday Cult and Street Shadows: A Memoir of Race, Rebellion, and Redemption, winner of the 2011 PEN New England/L.L. Whether confronting the medical professions racial biases or attempting to break free of societal stereotypes, Walker blends personal revelation and cultural critique in a series of short essays. How to Make a Slaveby Jerald Walker is an often humorous examination of what it is to grow and exist as a black American male.
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