Angry Black White Boy: A Novel

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 352 pages
• Published by: Three Rivers Press March 8, 2005
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 1400054877
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-1400054879
• Book Dimensions: 8 x 5.2 x 1.1 inches
• Weighs: 12.8 ounces

San Francisco Chronicle
Remarkably successful will make you laugh, cringe and read until the last page without knowing how it's going to end.

Product Review
"A remarkably successful remix of the traditional race novel. Mansbach
monkey-wrenches the formula of the angry black man in the white man's world and incisively cuts to the heart of the issue of race in America today. [Angry Black White Boy] shows us where we as a culture have come from, the distance we have traveled, and how long the road ahead remains. It is first-rate satire grounded in the ridiculous notion that a simple 'I'm sorry' can start to make things better. The novel will make you laugh, cringe and read until the last page without knowing how it's going to end. It is difficult to imagine a more appropriate conclusion for the story of Macon Detornay, as the uncertainty of fiction dovetails with the uncertainty of reality."
—San Francisco Chronicle

“Angry Black White Boy is bananas! Actually, it’s a banana split with razor blades in it. Adam Mansbach is the white Richard Wright, and Angry Black White Boy is our generation’s Native Son.” —William Upski Wimsatt, author of No More Prisons

“Startling, subversive, and raucous, Angry Black White Boy is a novel about how we became who we are, and why that’s not good enough.” —Daniel Alarcón, author of War by Candlelight

“With this brutal, hilarious, and tragic novel, Adam Mansbach proves once again he is one of the most ambitious, insightful, and daring writers of our generation.” —Jeff Chang, author of Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation

“Angry Black White Boy is full of hilariously twisted racial politics. Adam Mansbach is like a wigger Ishmael Reed running wild through the world of hip hop.” —Touré, author of Soul City

“An insanely smart novel that pulls no punches . . . wild, comic, and dark.” —Percival Everett, author of Erasure

Reader Reviews
Decades after the Sugar Hill gang burst onto the scene with "Rapper's Delight," the proliferation of hip-hop moves forward at a steady pace. ANGRY BLACK WHITE BOY is a chronicle of the effects hip-hop has had on America, racial politics, suburban youth, and Macon Detornay as he enters his freshman year at Columbia University. Macon is a man on a mission to be known as "the downest white boy." For years, he has paid his dues to Black culture and Black folks, earning respect in most circles with his lay-it-on-the-line speeches, innovative poetry, and his hatred for "the man." Nevertheless, Macon isn't content to just be down. He smells a revolution brewing, and he is at its forefront - accidentally on purpose. Mansbach's story enraptured me with its humor, lilt, and permutation of racial biases, issues, and scope. By creating a character who was totally different from, and almost antithetic to, any other I had ever read about, Mansbach won me over and held me captive in a story I had yet to hear. The writing was unpredictable and almost improvisational, and it fit the plot of this story without overshadowing the central themes and characters. ANGRY BLACK WHITE BOY gleams with brilliance, and I will never forget it. (RAW Rating: 4.5) Reviewed by CandaceK of The RAWSISTAZ™ Reviewers Comment | | (Report this)