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Chris Stuck in Conversation With Kimberly King Parsons

July 7, 2021 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Free
Online, N/A, Portland, OR 97207

A Black man’s life, told in scenes — through every time he’s been called nigger. A Black son who visits his estranged white father in Los Angeles just as the ’92 riots begin. A Black Republican, coping with a skin disease that has turned him white, is forced to reconsider his life. A young Black man, fetishized by a married white woman he’s just met, is offered a strange and tempting proposal. The nine tales in Chris Stuck’s Give My Love to the Savages (Amistad) illuminate the multifaceted Black experience, exploring the thorny intersections of race, identity, and Black life through an extraordinary cast of characters. From the absurd to the starkly realistic, these stories take aim at the ironies and contradictions of the American racial experience. Stuck traverses the dividing lines, and attempts to create meaning from them in unique and unusual ways. Each story considers a marker of our current culture, from uprisings and sly and not-so-sly racism, to Black fetishization and conservatism, to the obstacles placed in front of Black masculinity and Black and interracial relationships by society and circumstance. Ultimately, Give My Love to the Savages is the story of America. With biting humor and careful honesty, Stuck riffs on the dichotomy of love and barbarity — the yin and yang of racial experience — and the difficult and uncertain terrain Black Americans must navigate in pursuit of their desires. Stuck will be joined in conversation by Kimberly King Parsons, author of Black Light.

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Details

Date:
July 7, 2021
Time:
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Cost:
Free
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https://www.powells.com/events-update

Venue

Online
N/A
Portland, OR 97207

Organizer

Phone:
503-228-4651
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