Vershawn Ashanti Young: 2 books
Your Average Nigga
Performing Race, Literacy, and Masculinity
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
An engrossing autobiographical exploration of black masculinity as a mode of racial and verbal performance.
From Bourgeois to Boojie
Black Middle-Class Performances
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
Examines how generations of African Americans perceive, proclaim, and name the combined performance of race and class across genres.