The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell
- Authors
- Bell, W. Kamau
- Publisher
- Dutton Books
- Tags
- humour , writing
- Date
- 2017-05-02T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 1.43 MB
- Lang
- en
You may know W. Kamau Bell from his hit show on CNN. Or maybe you've read about him in The New York Times or The New Yorker , about his intersectional progressivism gimmick: he treats racial, gay, and women's issues as inseparable.
The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell is a humorous, well-informed take on the world today, tackling a wide range of evergreen issues, such as race relations; fatherhood; the state of law enforcement today; comedians and superheroes; right-wing politics; failure; his interracial marriage; his upbringing by very strong-willed, race-conscious, yet ideologically opposite parents; his early days struggling to find his comedic voice, then his later days struggling to find his comedic voice; why he never seemed to fit in with the Black comedy scene . . . or the white comedy scene; how he was a Black nerd way before that became a thing; how it took his wife and an East Bay lesbian to teach him that racism and sexism often walk hand in hand; and much, much more.