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Black Cool: One Thousand Streams Of Blackness (2012)

by Rebecca Walker(Favorite Author)

4.03 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1593764170 (ISBN13: 9781593764173)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Soft Skull Press

review 1: I knew Rebecca when she lived in Brooklyn NY. She was a cool woman who was just Becca to us...oh, yea the daughter of Alice Walker (squeel!!) This book is a must read for those who are open to writers like: dream hampton, Helena Andrews, Veronica Chamers, bell hooks, Michaela angela Davis Mat Johnson, Dayo Olopade and 10 others who are considered this countries most innovative thinkers as they explore the ineffable aesthetic of what is "Black Cool". It is a book for the geek, the reserved, the hipster and the eccentricity in us all. I found myself deeply moved, challenged, angered and curious which I know is a lot of emotional roller-coaster riding in 164 pages. What I know is that Becca asked each writer to describe what they thought Black Cool was and each writer delved ... moredeeply into their own emotional reserve and truly put it all out there. Each chapter is only a few pages, but you will drinking in every word. It will cause you to re-think what you consider 'cool' and it is one that I think empowers both men and women to become better people, better at taking care of the world, better at listening and observing each other, and just better at being cool themselves.
review 2: It's interesting to read the other reviews of this book. It seems that blacks were much more critical and less likely to engage in the writing as "cool". But for a white Jew like me, the writing was fascinating, insightful and really way cooler that I would ever have predicted. I'm not a fan of essays but these offer something that is rarely verbalized and worth taking the time to read and think about. less

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