The Events and Message of Adam Mansbach’s Angry Black White Boy Anonymous College

The concept of an entire race being born into a system subconsciously and socially degrading them is appalling. Underprivileged and undeserving, these unfortunate people groups are cast into mediocrity and suppressed under the unbearable weight of white supremacy. African Americans in particular experience this at as great or greater a degree as any other race, as is vividly displayed in Adam Mansbach’s Angry Black White Boy, a novel that satirically describes the unfortunate circumstances of blacks in America through a masterful narrative and polarizing truths about white society.

Following white Jew Macon Detornay, who better self-identifies with black culture, Angry Black White Boy exposes the atrocities in both obvious and covert Caucasian view of blacks. Early in the text, the Bostonian college freshman and descendant of the legendary and notoriously racist first baseman “Cap Anson”, moves to New York to attend Colombia University, where he rooms with Andre Walker, the descendant of the famously-tormented-by-Cap-Anson baseball player “Fleet” Walker. Macon quickly gets a job as a taxi driver, an occupation which further exposes the self-absorption of whites in their loose-tongued conversations with both Macon and their...