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Im reading If He hollers let him go by Chester B. Himes.

Who is apparently the only acclaimed black crime fiction writer from the classic era.

Which is nice since this line wouldn't mean as much and be as understandable if the author was white :

" All i could hear was the sound of the baby sucking greedily, and i thought if they really wanted to give him a break they´d cut his throat and bury him in the back yard before he got old enough to know he was a nigger "

As you can see its about Robert Jones who is struggling with not letting his race stand in the way of getting a good job in 1941 just after Pearl Harbour in Los Angeles. Where its not easy with the everyday racism of that day when the white people gets startled he would even ask for a job.

Its written in a badass way the book about a crime that will happen to Jones i geuss from blurb and the everyday racism. I have read enough to see Robert Jones is so frustrated at being called boy all the time that he is about to snap. He is also afraid of beating a paddy as he calls it as before after he saw the hateful way of they dealt with the japanese.

I like how you are transported to those days in a vivid way. Not as cheesy,sappy as you see racism stories about this in movies and other books.