Colored People: A Memoir
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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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.Publishers WeeklyThe two preeminent black American scholars address the legacy of W.E.B. Du Bois and community service in a series of brief essays. (Jan.)
\ From Barnes & NobleNoted scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr., currently head of the Afro-American Studies Department at Harvard, offers a memoir of his childhood and youth in the 1950s and '60s.\ \ \ \ \ Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly\ The two preeminent black American scholars address the legacy of W.E.B. Du Bois and community service in a series of brief essays. (Jan.)\ \ \ Library JournalThe man touted as America's most celebrated black scholar reminisces to his daughters about his boyhood in the polluted, dying Allegheny Mountains' papermill town of Piedmont, West Virginia. Laying out the social and emotional topography of a world shifting from segregation to integration and from colored to Negro to black, Gates evokes a bygone time and place as he moves from his birth in 1949 to 1969, when he goes off to Yale University after a year at West Virginia's Potomac State College. His pensive and sometimes wistful narrative brims with the mysteries and pangs and lifelong aches of growing up, from his encounters with sexuality, to the discovery of intellectual exhilaration as he is marked to excel in school, to his suffering a crippling injury to one of his legs and struggling frightfully for his father's respect. There is much to recommend this book as a story of boyhood, family, segregation, the pre-Civil Rights era, and the era when Civil Rights filtered down from television to local reality. Highly recommended. [Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 1/94.]-Thomas J. Davis, SUNY at Buffalo\ \
