I'd rather we got casinos-- and other Black thoughts / Larry Wilmore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilmore, Larry.

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Race relations.

United States.

Race relations.

African Americans--Race identity.

African Americans.

Racism--United States.

Racism.

Genre:

Humor.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xiii pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 224 pages : portrait ; 22 cm

Edition:

First Edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Hyperion, 2009.

Contents:

Introduction

A time for change

Take me to your leader

Man talk

A letter to the NAACP

Black weathermen make me feel happy

Black weathermen make me feel sad

Random Black thought #1

How come brothas don't see UFOs?, part I

Talk-back trauma

A second letter to the NAACP

Eulogy for the "N" word

Random Black thought #2

In search of Black Jesus

Give us the Superdome

Give your baby a "Nizname"

A third letter to the NAACP

Text messages from a Birmingham jail

Bring back the Shetland Negro

Random Black thought #3

A fourth letter to the NAACP

Angry Black church guide

Fair trial

Random Black thought #4

The last letter to the NAACP

How come brothas don't see UFOs?, part II

If not an apology, at least a "my bad"

It's okay to hate Black people who work at McDonald's at the airport (it doesn't make you racist)

The end of racism.

Notes:

Jacket design and montage by Artparts Studio and Phil Rose.

Jacket photographs by Deborah Feingold.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy has dust jacket with protective cover retained.

Banks Collection copy is former library copy with bar code for Prince George's County Memorial Library System.

ISBN:

9781401309558

1401309550

OCLC:

232327595