A capacious and mind-opening experience awaits within.
(Publishers Weekly starred review)Praise for Darryl Pinckney
An extraordinary achievement.... This tender, often droll portrait of one young life is also an arrestingly mature, original account of the condition of being black through several generations and of America in the sixties―a major part of our history. [High Cotton] is also beautifully written, exhilaratingly intelligent, and a joy to read.
(Susan Sontag)With High Cotton, Pinckney joins the first ranks of American writers.... A major achievement.
(Henry Louis Gates Jr.)The essays [in Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature] are full of great personal feeling, intellectual curiosity, and original, groundbreaking research....He is simultaneously sympathetic, skeptical, and analytical.
(Lorrie Moore)“Darryl Pinckney...has a distinctive voice and vision.”
(Edmund White, The New York Times)“With his combination of whimsy, eloquence, mournful nostalgia, self-disparagement, and razor-sharp irony, Pinckney creates a tone, and a persona, that are peculiarly astringent and affecting, at once charming and ever so slightly chilly. Here, we feel, is a witness, at once reporter and participant-observer, who seduces much of the time with wit, whose ambitions are always literary, whose observations never thicken into complacency.”
(Robert Boyers)In his formalism, one sees a mind that’s viewing things from a distance, [with] irony and danger and wit and darkness. But in the darkness there is this humor, a kind of joyous light.
(Robert Wilson)Blackballed is Darryl Pinckney’s meditation on a century and a half of participation by blacks in US electoral politics. In this combination of memoir, historical narrative, and contemporary political and social analysis, he investigates the struggle for black voting rights from Reconstruction through the civil rights movement to Barack Obama’s two presidential campaigns. Drawing on the work of scholars, the memoirs of civil rights workers, and the speeches and writings of black leaders like Martin Luther King and Stokely Carmichael, Andrew Young and John Lewis, Pinckney traces the disagreements among blacks about the best strategies for achieving equality in American society as well as the ways in which they gradually came to create the Democratic voting bloc that contributed to the election of the first black president.
Interspersed through the narrative are Pinckney’s own memories of growing up during the civil rights era and the reactions of his parents to the changes taking place in American society. He concludes with an examination of ongoing efforts by Republicans to suppress the black vote, with particular attention to the Supreme Court’s recent decision striking down part of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Also included here is Pinckney’s essay “What Black Means Now,” on the history of the black middle class, stereotypes about blacks and crime, and contemporary debates about “post-blackness.”
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