What It Is: Race, Family, and One Thinking Black Man's Blues Cover:Paperback ” —School Library Journal (starred

” —School Library Journal (starred review)

along with Kathleen Van Cleve

and this book is filled with all kinds of adorable ones

and work on their secret code

What It Is: Race, Family, and One Thinking Black Man's Blues Cover:Paperback ” —School Library Journal (starredAn African American writer's concise, heartfelt take on the state of his nation, exploring the war between the values he has always held and the reality with which he is confronted in twenty first century America. In the tradition of James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time and Ta Nehisi Coates's Between the World and Me comes Clifford Thompson's What It Is. Thompson was raised to believe in treating every person of every color as an individual, and he