{"id":11109,"date":"2019-04-02T11:16:54","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T18:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/?p=11109"},"modified":"2019-04-02T11:16:54","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T18:16:54","slug":"a-humorous-memoir-in-essays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/a-humorous-memoir-in-essays\/","title":{"rendered":"A humorous memoir-in-essays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2019\/04\/doesntkillBlacker.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-11110\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2019\/04\/doesntkillBlacker.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"419\" \/><\/a>For Damon Young, existing while Black is an extreme sport. The act of having black skin while searching for space to breathe in America<em>\u00a0<\/em>is enough to induce a ceaseless state of angst where questions such as \u201cHow should I react here, as a professional black person?\u201d and \u201cWill this white person\u2019s potato salad kill me?\u201d are forever relevant.<\/p>\n<p><em>What Doesn\u2019t Kill You Makes You Blacker\u00a0<\/em>chronicles Young\u2019s efforts to survive while battling and making sense of the various neuroses his country has given him.<\/p>\n<p><em>What Doesn\u2019t Kill You Makes You Blacker\u00a0<\/em><em>is a <\/em>celebration of the idiosyncrasies and distinctions of Blackness and a critique of white supremacy and how we define masculinity.<\/p>\n<p>Find this and more in the Popular Reading Collection!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Damon Young, existing while Black is an extreme sport. The act of having black skin while searching for space to breathe in America\u00a0is enough to induce a ceaseless state of angst where questions such as \u201cHow should I react &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/a-humorous-memoir-in-essays\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-popular-reading-collection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11111,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11109\/revisions\/11111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}