Walking on Water

Description:

Walking on Water is an account of the thoughts, the feelings, the lives, of African Americans in the post-Civil Rights era of the nineties. Traversing the country over a period of six years, Randall Kenan talked to nearly two hundred African Americans, whose individual stories he has shaped into a continent-sized tapestry of black American life today. He starts his journey in the famous, long-standing black resort community on Martha's Vineyard, travels up through New England, and heads west, visiting Chicago, Minneapolis (home of the singer Prince and of the Pilgrim Baptist Church, with its seven choirs and vast outreach), Coeur d'Alene (skinhead capital of the world), Seattle, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas. He moves on to the South, to Louisiana and St. Simons Island, where so many slave ships landed, and ends up at home in North Carolina, telling his own family's story.

subjects: Travel,  United States,  Canada,  African Americans,  Interviews,  Race identity,  Race relations,  Anecdotes,  Description and travel,  Afro-Americans,  Journeys,  New York Times reviewed,  Social conditions,  United states, race relations,  Canada, race relations,  African americans, race identity,  Canada, description and travel,  United states, description and travel

People: Randall Kenan

Places: United States,  Canada