Magically Black and Other Essays

Trade PB LITERARY COLLECTIONS/Essays In this engaging follow-up to How to Make a Slave and Other Essays, the recipient of the PEN/New England Award for Nonfiction and finalist for the National Book Award sharply examines and explains black life and culture with equal parts candor and humor. “With this book, Walker joins great essayists like Ralph Ellison and James Alan McPherson in imagining and explaining why and how the American culture ‘we have created’ is the truest embodiment of our identity. Magically Black affirms Jerald Walker’s status as a national treasure.”—Whitney Terrell, author of The Good Lieutenant