Everyday Something Has Tried To Kill Me And Has Failed : Notes from Periracial America Paperback / softback

What does periracial mean? It's a word I made up while casting about for a way to capture both the chronic nature of structural injustice and inequity of America and my own weariness.

A way to label life under that particular tooth in the zipper of interlocking systems of oppression bell hooks called 'imperialist white supremacist capitalist heteropatriarchy.' (What a lot to resist.

No wonder we're so tired!) To capture the endless cycle of progress and backlash which has shaped my one small life here in America during the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st.

To counter the idea - now largely abandoned but innocently believed for most of my adult life by white Americans on both ends of the political spectrum - that America has ever been post-racial.

To suggest that I suspect, at this sad rate, we never will be.' - Kim McLarin, on the meaning of Periracial.

With accumulated wisdom and sharp-eyed clarity, Everyday Something Has Tried To Kill Me And Has Failed addresses