The Sellout (10 hours): A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, Paul Beatty's
The Sellout
showcases a comic genius at the top of his game. It challenges the
sacred tenets of the United States Constitution, urban life, the civil
rights movement, the father-son relationship, and the holy grail of
racial equality: the black Chinese restaurant... the narrator sets out to
right another wrong: Dickens has literally been removed from the map to
save California from further embarrassment. Enlisting the help of the
town's most famous resident - the last surviving Little Rascal, Hominy
Jenkins - he initiates the most outrageous action conceivable:
reinstating slavery and segregating the local high school, which lands
him in the Supreme Court.
