The Sellout

• Author : Paul Beatty
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 23 March 2016

A biting American satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court

• Author : Paul Beatty
• Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Release : 03 March 2015

Winner of the Man Booker Prize Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction Winner of the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature New York Times Bestseller Los Angeles Times Bestseller Named One of the 10 Best Books of the Year by The New York Times Book Review Named a Best Book of the Year by Newsweek, The Denver Post, BuzzFeed, Kirkus Reviews, and Publishers Weekly Named a "Must-Read" by Flavorwire and New York Magazine's "Vulture" Blog A biting

• Author : Paul Beatty
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release : 24 March 2016

A Book of the Decade, 2010-2020 (Independent) ‘Outrageous, hilarious and profound.’ Simon Schama, Financial Times ‘The longer you stare at Beatty’s pages, the smarter you’ll get.’ Guardian ‘The most badass first 100 pages of an American novel I’ve read.’ New York Times A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, The Sellout showcases a comic genius at the top of his game. Born in Dickens on

• Author : Vikram Bhatti
• Publisher : Notion Press
• Release : 19 May 2018

A humorous account of the Republic of Bharatpur, which is infamous for its poverty and potholes, and is home to a billion Locals. However, unknown to the Locals, the Republic is about to have a million dollar makeover, all thanks to newly signed ‘Open Your Door Policy’ and the generosity of two international visitors, Mr. George W. Push and Miss Pamela Lewinsky, the President and the First Lady Secretary of the global superpower USK. Their mission is to turn citizens

• Author : Chima Okereke
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 30 July 2021

• Author : Randall Kennedy
• Publisher : Vintage
• Release : 08 January 2008

In this incisive and unflinching study, Randall Kennedy, author of Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word, tackles another stigma of America's racial discourse: “selling out.” He explains the origins of the concept and shows how fear of this label has haunted prominent members of the black community—including, most recently, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, and Barack Obama. Sellout also contains a rigorously fair case study of America's quintessential racial “sellout”—Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. In the book's

• Author : Charles Gasparino
• Publisher : Harper Collins
• Release : 03 November 2009

In the spirit of Barbarians at the Gate and Liar’s Poker comes The Sellout, the definitive book on the recent collapse of Wall Street, one of the most dramatic and anxiety-ridden era in national socioeconomic history. In this powerful business narrative, Charles Gasparino, the author of Blood on the Floor and King of the Club, captures how avarice, arrogance, and sheer stupidity eroded Wall Street’s dominance, made many of our country’s most fabled financial institutions vulnerable to

• Author : Bertram D. Ashe,Ilka Saal
• Publisher : University of Washington Press
• Release : 24 December 2019

From Kara Walker’s hellscape antebellum silhouettes to Paul Beatty’s bizarre twist on slavery in The Sellout and from Colson Whitehead’s literal Underground Railroad to Jordan Peele’s body-snatching Get Out, this volume offers commentary on contemporary artistic works that present, like musical deep cuts, some challenging “alternate takes” on American slavery. These artists deliberately confront and negotiate the psychic and representational legacies of slavery to imagine possibilities and change. The essays in this volume explore the conceptions

• Author : Ebony Joy Wilkins
• Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
• Release : 01 August 2010

It is a summer that will change everything . . . . NaTasha has a wonderful life in affluent Park Adams. She fits in, she has friends, and she's a member of the all-white ballet troupe. Being nearly the only African American in her school doesn't bother NaTasha. But it bothers Tilly, NaTasha's spitfire grandmother from Harlem, who decides NaTasha needs to get back to her roots or her granddaughter is in danger of losing herself completely. Tilly whisks NaTasha away to a world

• Author : David P. Schippers,Alan P. Henry
• Publisher : Regnery Publishing
• Release : 01 August 2000

A key figure in the Clinton Impeachment proceedings uncovers the lies, corruption, and dirty deals underpinning the trial, arguing that both parties conspired to rig the outcome.

• Author : Jud Kinberg,Murray F. Smith
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 30 July 1975

• Author : Paul Beatty
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release : 16 March 2017

‘Beatty insistently finds poetry in the projects, dignity on the street.’ Guardian ‘Beatty’s blunt, impious, streetwise eloquence [is] transfixing’ New York Times ‘The writing here is seamless and teeming with momentum’ New York Times Book Review Winston ‘Tuffy’ Foshay is a 19-year-old, 24-stone ‘player-king’ to a hapless gang in Spanish Harlem, a denizen who breaks jaws and shoots dogs. His best friend is a disabled Muslim man who wants to rob banks, his guiding light is an ex-hippie Asian

• Author : Paul Beatty
• Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Release : 13 July 2021

From Paul Beatty, the author of the 2016 Man Booker Prize winner The Sellout, a novel as fast-paced and hard-edged as the Harlem streets it portrays, Tuff...

• Author : Whizbooks
• Publisher : Blurb
• Release : 23 May 2019

Summary of The Sellout: A Novel by Paul Beatty: Trivia Books Published in 2015, The Sellout is a novel set in Los Angeles, where the protagonist Me, makes a living growing watermelons and marijuana. He tries to reinstate slavery and segregation in his majorly black neighborhood. This leads to a Supreme Court case, in which the protagonist is tried for his crime. He ultimately wins the case, making a mockery of the concept of justice for all. The Sellout proved to

• Author : Howard Rambsy II.
• Publisher : University of Virginia Press
• Release : 01 April 2020

How have African American writers drawn on "bad" black men and black boys as creative touchstones for their evocative and vibrant art? This is the question posed by Howard Rambsy’s new book, which explores bad men as a central, recurring, and understudied figure in African American literature, and music. By focusing on how various iterations of the bad black man figure serve as creative muse and inspiration for literary production, Rambsy puts a wide variety of contemporary African American