Description: Book and Stage Performance by Jason Diakité
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Book Stage Contact / Press Instagram The Book The Stage Performance Buy the book English (Amazon) Norwegian (Adlibris) Swedish (Akademibokhandeln) View reviews Born to interracial American parents in Sweden, Jason Diakité grew up between worlds—part Swedish, American, black, white, Cherokee, Slovak, and German, riding a delicate cultural and racial divide. It was a no- man’s-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 famil
In A Drop of Midnight, Jason draws on conversations with his parents, personal experiences, long-lost letters, and pilgrimages to South Carolina and New York to paint a vivid picture of race, discrimination, family, and ambition. His ancestors’ origins as slaves in the antebellum South, his parents’ struggles as an interracial couple, and his own world- expanding connection to hip-hop helped him fashion a strong black identity in Sweden.
What unfolds in Jason’s 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, then and now.