Honky

Name: Honky
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ISBN: 9780375727757

ISBN-10: 0375727752

ISBN-13: 9780375727757

Edition: 2001 (Reprint)

Authors: Dalton Conley

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As recalled in Honky, Dalton Conley’s childhood has all of the classic elements of growing up in America. But the fact that he was one of the few white boys in a mostly black and Puerto Rican neighborhood on Manhattan’s Lower East Side makes Dalton’s childhood unique. At the age of three, he couldn’t understand why the infant daughter of the black separatists next door couldn’t be his sister, so he kidnapped her. By the time he was a teenager, he realized that not even a parent’s devotion could protect his best friend from a stray bullet. Years after the privilege of being white and middle class allowed Conley to leave the projects, his entertaining memoir allows us to see how race and…

Book details

List price: $16.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/18/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English



Prologue


Black Babies


Trajectories


Downward Mobility


Race Lessons


Fear


Learning Class


The Hawk


Getting Paid


Sesame Street


Welcome to America


No Soap Radio


Moving On Up


Disco Sucks


Addictions


Symmetry


Fire


Cultural Capital


Epilogue


Author's Note