Black on Black: On Our Resilience and Brilliance in America Audiobook, by Daniel Black Play Audiobook Sample

Black on Black: On Our Resilience and Brilliance in America Audiobook

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Read By: JD Jackson Publisher: Harlequin Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 4.50 hours at 1.5x Speed 3.38 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: January 2023 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781488218330

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

17

Longest Chapter Length:

55:35 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

09 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

23:51 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

5

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Publisher Description

A piercing collection of essays on racial tension in America and the ongoing fight for visibility, change, and lasting hope

There are stories that must be told.

Acclaimed novelist and scholar Daniel Black has spent a career writing into the unspoken, fleshing out, through storytelling, of pain that can’t be described.

Now, in his debut essay collection, Black gives voice to the experiences of those who often find themselves on the margins. He tackles topics ranging from police brutality to the AIDS crisis, to the role of historically Black colleges and universities, to queer representation in the Black church. Black on Black celebrates the resilience, fortitude, and survival of Black people in a land where their body is always on display.

As Daniel Black reminds us, while hope may be slow in coming, it always arrives, and when it does, it delivers beyond the imagination.

Propulsive, intimate, and achingly relevant, Black on Black is cultural criticism at its openhearted best.

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“JD Jackson expertly narrates these thoughtful, tightly crafted essays…Jackson’s delivery is clear and assured—he has the tone of a university professor (which Black is) who is ready to share his accumulated wisdom with warmth, humor, and refreshing directness…This is a must-listen audiobook.”

— AudioFile 

Quotes

  • “A debut essay collection examining issues that range from police brutality to the role of queer representation in the Black church. Along the way, he celebrates the strength of Black Americans—and indeed anyone on the margins—and the ongoing struggle for fairness and equality.”

    — Library Journal
  • “Every word in Black on Black is fashioned from joy, pain, and tears.”

    — Greg E. Carr, PHD, JD, associate professor of Africana Studies, Howard University
  • “The moral and ethical imperative of Black on Black is to speak a truth that renders Black lives sacred, valued, and luminous.”

    — Major Jackson, poet and author of The Absurd Man

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About Daniel Black

Daniel Black is an author and professor of African American studies and English at Clark Atlanta University. His books include The Coming, Perfect Peace, and They Tell Me of a Home. He is the winner of the Distinguished Writer Award from the Middle-Atlantic Writer's Association and has been nominated for the Townsend Prize for Fiction, the Ernest J. Gaines Award, and the Georgia Author of the Year Award.

About JD Jackson

JD Jackson is a theater professor, aspiring stage director, and award-winning audiobook narrator. He is a classically trained actor, and his television and film credits include roles on House, ER, Law & Order, Hack, Sherrybaby, Diary of a City Priest, and Lucky Number Slevin. He is the recipient of more than a dozen Earphones Awards for narration and an Odyssey Honor for G. Neri’s Ghetto Cowboy, and he was also named one of AudioFile magazine’s Best Voices of the Year for 2012 and 2013. An adjunct professor at Los Angeles Southwest College, he has an MFA in theater from Temple University.