{"id":63304,"date":"2022-02-26T21:15:10","date_gmt":"2022-02-26T21:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63304"},"modified":"2022-03-03T02:13:09","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T02:13:09","slug":"a-drop-of-midnight-a-memoir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=63304","title":{"rendered":"A Drop of Midnight: A Memoir"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Drop of Midnight: A Memoir<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Amazon Crossing<\/a>
\n2020-03-01
\n304 pages
\n5.5 x 1 x 8.25 inches
\nHardcover ISBN-13: 978-1542017077
\nPaperback ISBN-13: 978-1542016704
\nAudio CD ISBN: 978-1799726296<\/p>\n

Jason Diakit\u00e9<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Rachel Willson-Broyles<\/strong><\/a> (Translator)<\/p>\n

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World-renowned hip-hop<\/a> artist Jason \u201cTimbuktu\u201d Diakit\u00e9\u2019s vivid and intimate journey through his own and his family\u2019s history\u2015from South Carolina<\/a> slavery to twenty-first-century Sweden<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Born to interracial American parents in Sweden, Jason Diakit\u00e9 grew up between worlds\u2015part Swedish, American, black, white, Cherokee, Slovak, and German, riding a delicate cultural and racial divide. It was a no-man\u2019s-land that left him in constant search of self. Even after his hip-hop career took off, Jason fought to unify a complex system of family roots that branched across continents, ethnicities, classes, colors, and eras to find a sense of belonging.<\/p>\n

In A Drop of Midnight<\/em>, Jason draws on conversations with his parents, personal experiences, long-lost letters, and pilgrimages to South Carolina and New York<\/a> to paint a vivid picture of race, discrimination, family, and ambition. His ancestors\u2019 origins as slaves in the antebellum South<\/a>, his parents\u2019 struggles as an interracial couple, and his own world-expanding connection to hip-hop helped him fashion a strong black identity in Sweden.<\/p>\n

What unfolds in Jason\u2019s remarkable voyage of discovery is a complex and unflinching look at not only his own history but also that of generations affected by the trauma of the African diaspora<\/a>, then and now.<\/p>\n