{"product_id":"all-your-racial-problems-will-soon-end-hardcover","title":"ALL YOUR RACIAL PROBLEMS WILL SOON END (Hardcover)","description":"\u003cb\u003eYears before he wrote his National Book Award–winning novel \u003ci\u003eMiddle Passage\u003c\/i\u003e, Charles Johnson created these sidesplitting and subversive gag comics about Black life in America, now collected for the first time in nearly half a century.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBefore Charles Johnson found fame as a novelist and won the National Book Award for \u003ci\u003eMiddle Passage \u003c\/i\u003ein 1991, he was a cartoonist, and a very good one. Taught via correspondence course by the comics editor Lawrence Lariar, mentored by the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e cartoonist Charles Barsotti, and inspired by the call of the poet Amiri Baraka to celebrate and depict Black life in America, Johnson crafted some of the fiercest and funniest cartoons of the twentieth century. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReimagining the gag comic as a powerful and incendiary tool, Johnson tackled America’s mid-century afflictions—segregation, inner-city poverty, police brutality, and white supremacy—by craftily subverting stale gag tropes. He populated them with bullet-dodging Black Panthers, doubt-filled Klansmen, militant babies, selfserving politicians, and complacent suburban liberals. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collection, Johnson’s first in nearly fifty years, brings together work from across his career: college newspaper gags, selections from his books \u003ci\u003eBlack Humor\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHalf-Past Nation Time\u003c\/i\u003e, his unpublished manuscript \u003ci\u003eLumps in the Melting Pot\u003c\/i\u003e, and uncollected pieces. Taken together, this volume reveals Johnson as long overdue for appreciation as a cartoonist of the first order.","brand":"Johnson, Charles","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52337343496466,"sku":"9781681376738","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0270\/9238\/5846\/files\/17556443482786.jpg?v=1780441537","url":"https:\/\/hbswarehousesale.com\/products\/all-your-racial-problems-will-soon-end-hardcover","provider":"Harvard Book Store Warehouse Sale","version":"1.0","type":"link"}