Colored People: A Memoir by Gates, Henry Louis

Colored People: A Memoir (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780679739197)

Vendor: Henry Louis Gates
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Format: Paperback
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Colored People: A Memoir by Gates, Henry Louis

Colored People: A Memoir

$16.00
Colored People: A Memoir by Gates, Henry Louis

Colored People: A Memoir

$16.00
Format: Paperback
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In a coming-of-age story as enchantingly vivid and ribald as anything Mark Twain or Zora Neale Hurston, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., recounts his childhood in the mill town of Piedmont, West Virginia, in the 1950s and 1960s and ushers readers into a gossip, of lye-and-mashed-potato "processes," and of slyly stubborn resistance to the indignities of segregation.

A winner of the Chicago Tribune's Heartland Award and the Lillian Smith Prize, Colored People is a pungent and poignant masterpiece of recollection, a work that extends and deepens our sense of African American history even as it entrances us with its bravura storytelling

Author: Henry Louis Gates
ISBN-10: 067973919X
ISBN-13: 9780679739197
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 04/11/1995
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 03/06/1995
Publishers Weekly 12/09/1996
By Henry Louis Gates
By Henry Louis Gates
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Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University. The author of numerous books, including the widely acclaimed memoir Colored People, Professor Gates has also edited several anthologies and is coeditor with Kwame Anthony Appiah of Encarta Africana, an encyclopedia of the African Diaspora. An influential cultural critic, he is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker and other publications and is the recipient of many honors, including a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship and the National Humanities Medal.

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