Jason “Timbuktu” Diakité
BackCategory
Entertainment
Start date
2020-03-11 18:00:00
End date
2020-03-11 21:00:00
Address / City
5211 N Clark Street Chicago
Location
IL, US
World-renowned Swedish hip-hop artist Jason “Timbuktu” Diakité will stop at the Swedish American Museum during his USA book tour. This is the only stop he will make in Chicago. The evening will include a reading from his book “A Drop of Midnight” and some Q&A time.
Reservations are required since we are expecting to sell out. The ticket includes a signed copy of the book. Call 773.728.8111 or email museum@samac.org
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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 family roots that branched across continents, ethnicities, classes, colors, and eras to find a sense of belonging.
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.
Reservations are required since we are expecting to sell out. The ticket includes a signed copy of the book. Call 773.728.8111 or email museum@samac.org
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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 family roots that branched across continents, ethnicities, classes, colors, and eras to find a sense of belonging.
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.
Organizer
Swedish American Museum
Phone
773-728-8111
Email
museum@samac.org
