The Black Box: Writing the Race

Author:   Henry Louis Gates, Jr
Publisher:   Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN:  

9780241678503


Pages:   304
Publication Date:   19 March 2024
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Henry Louis Gates, Jr
Publisher:   Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:   Allen Lane
Dimensions:   Width: 14.40cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 22.20cm
Weight:   0.422kg
ISBN:  

9780241678503


ISBN 10:   0241678501
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   19 March 2024
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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The allure of this book, and the reason for its existence, are the narrative links he draws among these people and events, and his insistence that a survey of African American history is incomplete without a special consideration of how writing has undergirded and powered it. This is a literary history of Black America, but it is also an argument that African American history is inextricable from the history of African American literature -- Tope Folarin * The New York Times *


PRAISE FOR STONY THE ROAD: 'A bracing alternative to Trump-era white nationalism ... In our current politics we recognise African-American history – the spot under our country's rug where the terrorism and injustices of white supremacy are habitually swept. Stony the Road lifts the rug ... essential ... a history that very much needs telling and hearing in these times. -- Nell Irvin Painter * New York Times Book Review * [A] luminous history of Reconstruction, and the savage white backlash that derailed it. ... Few authors approach such difficult history with the unblinking clarity of Gates, the esteemed Harvard professor, historian, and scholar. * Boston Globe * Concise, powerful ... an important addition to America's evolving view of its own history. * The Economist *


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Henry Louis Gates Jr is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and founding director of the Hutchins Centre for African and African American Research at Harvard University. An award-winning filmmaker, literary scholar, journalist, cultural critic, and institution builder, Professor Gates has authored or coauthored more than twenty books and created more than twenty documentary films, including his groundbreaking genealogy series Finding Your Roots. His six-part PBS documentary, The African Americans- Many Rivers to Cross, earned an Emmy Award, a Peabody Award, and an NAACP Image Award. This series and his PBS documentary series Reconstruction- America after the Civil War were both honored with the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award. His most recent PBS documentary is Gospel.

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