Kevin Young on African American Culture, and Its Role in the Country’s Cultural Progress

The Takeaway

In poet  Kevin Young’s new book, “The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness,” Young offers a remarkable, encyclopedic essay on the history of African-American culture. Young explores how African-American culture and American culture have affected one another. The book, part prose and part essay, also explores how African-American culture has become an essential and inextricable part of American culture.

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