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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
xvi, 414 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Profiles one hundred influential African Americans who helped shape the history of the twentieth century, including revered figures in the fields of music, literature, sports, science, politics, and the civil rights movement.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
xxxvii, 262 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A magnificent, foundational reckoning with how Black Americans have used the written word to define and redefine themselves, in resistance to the lies of racism and often in heated disagreement with each other, over the course of the country's history. Distilled over many years from Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s legendary Harvard introductory course in African American Studies, The Black Box: Writing the Race, is the story of Black self-definition in...
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