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Life Out of Context
A work of Non-fiction by Walter Mosley
Subgenres:
- African American Studies,
- Political Essays,
- Memoir
This book is for you if you're into...
- Late night meditations on identity and political responsibility
- Firsthand reckonings with cultural dislocation as a Black intellectual
- Calls to rethink Black political alliances in America
Life Out of Context begins as a powerful, brooding and humorously honest examination of Mosley's own sense of cultural dislocation as an African American writer.
But due to a series of serendipitous events -- the screening of a documentary about Africa, an encounter with Harry Belafonte and Hugh Masakela -- Mosley, rather like the protagonist in one of his mystery novels, has a series of epiphanies on the role of a black intellectual in America.
He asks: What can we do to fight injustice, poverty, exploitation, and racism? What is globalization doing to us?
Through these late night meditations, Mosley attempts to transcend his earlier feelings of living a 'life out of context' and seeks instead to find a political context.
He ends with a call to arms, proposing that African Americans have to break their historic ties with the Democrat Party, and form a party of their own.
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