A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance Free Audiobook Download by Hanif Abdurraqib

The first part of this audiobook is taken from the essay, "Notes in Praise of Black Performance" by Hanif Abdurraqib. It is a compendium of all the things that can be said about blackness and performance, but in particular it focuses on what it means to perform within America's dominant conception of performance. We learn how performance has been used as a cover for white supremacy, how slavery had a direct impact on our understanding of what was American, and how American culture trades in black bodies to sell cars and hamburgers.

The audiobook by Hanif Abdurraqib is a collection of brief essays about black performance. The essays are fascinating and often hilarious, but there is one that I found truly captivating: "A Little Devil in America". This essay talks about the power of blackness to transform American culture, and it's something I think everyone should read.

A Little Devil in America, a journal-style book of prose and poetry written by Hanif Abdurraqib, is a personal account of the author's observation of black life and culture. The book covers a range of topics such as race, sexual identity, violence, classism, and the state of American society. The narrator [Jd Jackson] is an accomplished actor who has been able to use his magical voice to create the story that Abdurraqib cannot tell with the aid of words alone.

The first time I heard this book, my reaction was immediate: I wanted to talk about it. This is a collection of autobiographical essays by Hanif Abdurraqib exploring the intersections between race and culture in America. They are focused and personal, diving into the history of racism, intersectional feminism, black gender performance and the contemporary implications of them both.

A Letter to My Daughters is a poetry collection about the experiences of black people in America. One of Abdurraqib's poems, "Little Devil in America," tells the story of a little devil who lived with a family that was white and Jewish. The little devil did not know anything about what it meant to be human, so he decided to teach himself by living among the humans and watching them from his perch. The poem has inspired me to view my sister's experiences through a similar lens.

Black Performance is the first audiobook in a series of audiobooks that Hanif Abdurraqib will create about the various experiences of being black in America. In each book, he will detail and discuss a different time period or event in history. Some of the books have already been released, but you can listen to them all on Audiobooks.com as well as listen to them on your phone with an app called Overdrive.