A review by alaiyo0685
How to Be Black by Baratunde R. Thurston

4.0

As a Black woman, I'm pretty easily reeled in by books whose titles suggest the author is trying to be either descriptive or, better/worse, prescriptive about Blackness. Baratunde Thurston's How to Be Black is clearly an example of this...and it definitely falls on the "better" side of that line for me. A collection of essays written mostly by Thurston himself, with interjections from others whose life work revolves around issues of race and identity in North America, How to be Black mixed punniness and provocativeness poignantly.