| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
286 pages ; 22 cm |
| Note(S) |
Previously published as "En Droppe Midnatt by Abert Bonniers Forlag" in Sweden in 2016. |
| Summary |
World-renowned hip-hop artist Jason Timbuktu Diakité 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 Diakité 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. |
| Local Note |
Holdings may include varient items. |
| Note |
Translated from the Swedish. |
| Subject |
Diakité, Jason Timbuktu, 1975-
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| Subject(S) |
Rap musicians -- Sweden -- Biography.
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Black people -- Sweden -- Biography.
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Biographies.
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Autobiographies.
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| Added Name(S) |
Willson-Broyles, Rachel, translator.
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| Added Title |
Droppe midnatt. English.
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| ISBN |
9781542017077 (hardcover) |
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9781542016704 (paperback) |
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