A Little Devil in America av Hanif Abdurraqib

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<p><b>**As featured on Barack Obama''s Summer 2022 Reading List**<br></b><b><br>Winner of the Gordon Burn Prize<br></b><b>Winner of the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction</b><br><b>Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award</b><br><b>Finalist for the Pen/Diamonstein-Spievogel Award for the Art of the Essay</b><br><b>Shortlisted for the National Book Award</b><br><br><b>''Gorgeous'' - Brit Bennett</b><br><b>''Pure genius'' - Jacqueline Woodson</b><br><b>''One of the most dynamic books I have ever read'' - Clint Smith</b><br><br>At the March on Washington, Josephine Baker reflected on her life and her legacy. She had spent decades as one of the most successful entertainers in the world, but, she told the crowd, "I was a devil in other countries, and I was a little devil in America, too". Inspired by these words, Hanif Abdurraqib has written a stirring meditation on Black performance in the modern age, in which culture, history and his own lived experience co