You'll never believe what happened to Lacey : crazy stories about racism / Amber Ruffin and Lacey Lamar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ruffin, Amber, author.

Lamar, Lacey, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Social conditions--Humor.

African Americans.

African American wit and humor.

Racism--Anecdotes.

Racism.

Ruffin, Amber.

Lamar, Lacey.

Race relations.

African Americans--Social conditions.

United States--Race relations--Humor.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Humor.

Anecdotes.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 215 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

You will never believe what happened to Lacey

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Grand Central Publishing, 2021.

Summary:

Writer and performer on Late Night with Seth Meyers Amber Ruffin writes with her sister Lacey Lamar with humor and heart to share absurd anecdotes about everyday experiences of racism. Now a writer and performer on Late Night with Seth Meyers and host of The Amber Ruffin Show, Amber Ruffin lives in New York, where she is no one's First Black Friend and everyone is, as she puts it, "stark raving normal." But Amber's sister Lacey? She's still living in their home state of Nebraska, and trust us, you'll never believe what happened to Lacey. From racist donut shops to strangers putting their whole hand in her hair, from being mistaken for a prostitute to being mistaken for Harriet Tubman, Lacey is a lightning rod for hilariously ridiculous yet all-too-real anecdotes. She's the perfect mix of polite, beautiful, petite, and Black that apparently makes people think "I can say whatever I want to this woman." And now, Amber and Lacey share these entertainingly horrifying stories through their laugh-out-loud sisterly banter. Painfully relatable or shockingly eye-opening (depending on how often you have personally been followed by security at department stores), this book tackles modern-day racism with the perfect balance of levity and gravity.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: I Got a Million of `Em'

I Find This Hard to Believe

Is This a Joke?

I Do Not Care for These Stories

Let's Take a Break and Have Some More Silly Stories

White Church: The Worst Place on Earth

Amber Ruins the Book

I Want to Put This Book Down and Run Away from It.

ISBN:

9781538719367

1538719363

OCLC:

1200763509

Publisher Number:

99986281397