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Negropedia

The Assimilated Negro’s Crash Course on the Modern Black Experience

The Assimilated Negro’s Crash Course on the Modern Black Experience

By Patrice Evans

By Patrice Evans

By Patrice Evans

By Patrice Evans

Category: Humor

Category: Humor

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Oct 04, 2011 | 240 Pages

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    About Negropedia

    Patrice Evans is The Assimilated Negro, a hyperobservant, savagely pop-savvy instigator bent on pranking the crap out of our modern racial discourse. Since the debut of his popular “Ghetto Pass” column for Gawker.com, Evans has been the rare voice capable of speaking to junkies for both White Castle and Colson Whitehead with equal insight and aplomb. His first book, Negropedia, is a wide-ranging, deeply idiosyncratic tour through the tricky racial landscape of the Obama era, aimed at pop-culture consumers at the intersecting fan bases of South Park and Chappelle’s Show, Scott Pilgrim and The Boondocks.
                Whether deconstructing Lil Wayne’s “no homo hypocrisy,” outlining the all-important Clair Huxtable code for finding a mate, or assessing Susan Sontag’s street cred, Evans provides a stream of daring outsider anthropology.

    About Negropedia

    Patrice Evans is The Assimilated Negro, a hyperobservant, savagely pop-savvy instigator bent on pranking the crap out of our modern racial discourse. Since the debut of his popular “Ghetto Pass” column for Gawker.com, Evans has been the rare voice capable of speaking to junkies for both White Castle and Colson Whitehead with equal insight and aplomb. His first book, Negropedia, is a wide-ranging, deeply idiosyncratic tour through the tricky racial landscape of the Obama era, aimed at pop-culture consumers at the intersecting fan bases of South Park and Chappelle’s Show, Scott Pilgrim and The Boondocks.
                Whether deconstructing Lil Wayne’s “no homo hypocrisy,” outlining the all-important Clair Huxtable code for finding a mate, or assessing Susan Sontag’s street cred, Evans provides a stream of daring outsider anthropology.


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    About Patrice Evans

    PATRICE EVANS, aka The Assimilated Negro (TAN), is a contributing writer for Grantland.com. He has written about the intersection of race, class, and pop culture for Time Out New York, Gawker.com, McSweeney’s, and CollegeHumor.com, as well as What Was the… More about Patrice Evans

    About Patrice Evans

    PATRICE EVANS, aka The Assimilated Negro (TAN), is a contributing writer for Grantland.com. He has written about the intersection of race, class, and pop culture for Time Out New York, Gawker.com, McSweeney’s, and CollegeHumor.com, as well as What Was the… More about Patrice Evans

    Product Details

    Paperback | $14.00
    Published by Three Rivers Press
    Oct 04, 2011 | 240 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780307463807

    Ebook | $9.99
    Published by Three Rivers Press
    Oct 04, 2011 | 240 Pages | ISBN 9780307463814

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    Praise

    “This definitely supplants that weird book my grandpa gave me from the ’30s as the best guide to black people I’ve ever read.”
    —Christian Lander, author of Stuff White People Like and Whiter Shades of Pale
     
    “I feel like I became closer to the Lord by reading this book.
    This book is to black life what the basketball is to a game of basketball.
    Read my quote. Be influenced. Buy this book.”
    —Hannibal Buress, writer (30 Rock, Saturday Night Live) and comedian (My name is Hannibal.)

    “Negropedia is a humorous collection of essays.” – Jason Parham, NewYorker.com

    “A group of hilarious vignettes ” – Flavorwire.com

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