America Behind the Color Line: Dialogues with African Americans
by Henry Louis Gates
2021-01-01 11:19:36
America Behind the Color Line: Dialogues with African Americans
by Henry Louis Gates
2021-01-01 11:19:36
- AMERICA BEHIND THE COLOR LINE ties in to the eponymous four-part PBS and BBC documentary airing in early 2004, but it is also an important piece of social commentary that stands on its own merits.- AMERICA BEHIND THE COLOR LINE includes thought-pro...
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- AMERICA BEHIND THE COLOR LINE ties in to the eponymous four-part PBS and BBC documentary airing in early 2004, but it is also an important piece of social commentary that stands on its own merits.- AMERICA BEHIND THE COLOR LINE includes thought-provoking essays drawn from interviews with notable African Americans, including Colin Powell, Morgan Freeman, Russell Simmons, Vernon Jordan, Alicia Keys, Bernie Mac, and Quincy Jones, among others.- Henry Louis Gates, Jr., discovered and edited what is very likely the first novel written by a black woman, "The Bondwoman's Narrative (Warner, 4/02), based on one woman's real-life flight from slavery in the 1850s. Celebrated by academics and readers alike, it became a "New York Times bestseller and has over 143,000 hardcover copies in print.- Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is one of the foremost scholars working in African American studies today. He is chair of Harvard's African American studies program, general editor of "The Norton Anthology of African American Literature (W.W. Norton & Co., 1996), author of "The African American Century (The Free Press, 2000), and he wrote the foreword to "Unchained Memories (Little, Brown and Company, 2/03).
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