Black History Book Club: “Bourgeois Blues” by Jake Lamar
Join the next Black History Book Club for a special discussion with Jake Lamar, author of Bourgeois Blues, on June 29, 2026, at Tampa’s Black History Museum.
This free event begins at 5:30 p.m. at 1213 N. Central Ave. Lamar, a Harvard alumnus and American-born writer and journalist, will join the conversation to share insight into his autobiographical work, which explores race, class, social mobility and coming of age in the 1970s and 1980s.
Purchase Bourgeois Blues at the Tampa Bay History Center Museum Store or find the title online.
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