A Drop of Midnight: A Memoir Contributor(s): Diakité, Jason (Author), Willson-Broyles, Rachel (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1542016703 ISBN-13: 9781542016704 Publisher: Amazon Crossing OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2020 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - African American & Black - Biography & Autobiography | Music |
Dewey: B |
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.4" W x 8.2" (0.65 lbs) 304 pages |
Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: World-renowned hip-hop artist Jason "Timbuktu" Diakit '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 Diakit 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. |