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The Future of the Race
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 13.95Almost one-hundred years ago, W.E.B. Du Bois proposed the notion of the "talented tenth," an African American elite that would serve as leaders and models for the larger black community. In this unprecedented collaboration, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Cornel West--two of Du Bois's most prominent intellectual descendants--reassess that relationship... more...
Loose Canons
Oxford University Press 1993; US$ 29.99Multiculturalism. It has been the subject of cover stories in Time and Newsweek, as well as numerous articles in newspapers and magazines around America. It has sparked heated jeremiads by George Will, Dinesh D'Sousa, and Roger Kimball. It moved William F. Buckley to rail against Stanley Fish and Catherine Stimpson on "Firing Line." It is arguably... more...
Finding Oprah's Roots
Crown Publishing Group 2007; US$ 19.95Finding Oprah?s Roots will not only endow readers with a new appreciation for the key contributions made by history?s unsung but also equip them with the tools to connect to pivotal figures in their own past. A roadmap through the intricacies of public documents and online databases, the book also highlights genetic testing resources that can make... more...
In Search of Our Roots
Crown Publishing Group 2009; US$ 27.50Unlike most white Americans who, if they are so inclined, can search their ancestral records, identifying who among their forebears was the first to set foot on this country?s shores, most African Americans, in tracing their family?s past, encounter a series of daunting obstacles. Slavery was a brutally efficient nullifier of identity, willfully denying... more...
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 14.00"This is a book of stories," writes Henry Louis Gates, "and all might be described as 'narratives of ascent.'" As some remarkable men talk about their lives, many perspectives on race and gender emerge. For the notion of the unitary black man, Gates argues, is as imaginary as the creature that the poet Wallace Stevens conjured in his poem "Thirteen... more...
Colored People
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 15.00From 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. From the Trade Paperback edition. more...
Black Cool
Soft Skull Press 2012; US$ 14.95Black Cool explores the ineffable state and aesthetic of Black Cool. From the effortless reserve of Miles Davis in khakis on an early album cover, to the shock of resistance in black women?s fashion from Angela Davis to Rihanna, to the cadence of poets as diverse as Staceyann Chin and Audre Lorde, Black Cool looks at the roots of Black Cool and... more...
Our Nig
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 15.00With a New Preface, Introduction, and Notes by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. New Afterword by Barbara White A fascinating fusion of two literary models of the nineteenth century, the sentimental novel and the slave narrative, Our Nig , apart from its historical significance, is a deeply ironic and highly readable work, tracing the trials and tribulations... more...
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Random House Publishing Group 2011; US$ 6.99This dramatic autobiography of the early life of an American slave was first published in 1845, when its young author had just achieved his freedom. Douglass' eloquence gives a clear indication of the powerful principles that led him to become the first great African-American leader in the United States. From the Trade Paperback edition. more...
Lincoln on Race and Slavery
Princeton University Press 2009; US$ 20.95Generations of Americans have debated the meaning of Abraham Lincoln's views on race and slavery. He issued the Emancipation Proclamation and supported a constitutional amendment to outlaw slavery, yet he also harbored grave doubts about the intellectual capacity of African Americans, publicly used the n-word until at least 1862, and favored permanent... more...
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