Get Funky, Get Swoll Cultural Heritage veteran bookseller and writer Josh

veteran bookseller and writer Josh Cook turns a generous yet critical eye to an industry at the heart of American culture

rather than through reliance on formal doctrine and ideas

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but the effort is exhausting

Get Funky, Get Swoll Cultural Heritage veteran bookseller and writer JoshBy: Akhim Yuseff Caby Published by Black Lawrence Press, 2026 04 21 Get Funky, Get Swoll explores, demonstrates, and indicts the multifaceted and multifarious ways white supremacy, white culture, and, in very specific instances white people, have had a profound and tragic impact on the human experience of those people known as Black. The collection's opening examines intimate racism the kind that exists between friends and friend groups and lovers;