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From an American Book Award-winning author comes a pungent and poignant masterpiece of recollection that ushers readers into a now-vanished "colored" world and extends and deepens our sense of African-American history, even as it entrances us with its bravura storytelling.
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"Affecting, beautifully written and morally complex...The heart of the memoir is Gates' portrait of his family, and its placement in a black society whose strength, richness and self-confidence thrived in the darkness of segregation."--Richard Eder, The Los Angeles Times
"[Colored People] may well become a classic of American memoir."--The Boston Globe
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"[Colored People] may well become a classic of American memoir."--The Boston Globe
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is Professor of English and Chairman of Afro-American Studies at Harvard University.
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- PublisherVintage Books
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0140240950
- ISBN 13 9780140240955
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages240
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Good. 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. 216 pages. Seller Inventory # 1458298
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