Colored people : a memoir
Gates, Henry Louis
Colored people : a memoir / Henry Louis Gates, Jr - 1st ed - New York : Vintage Books , 1995, c1994. - xvi, 216 p. ; 22 cm.
The 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.
9780679739197
93012256
Gates, Henry Louis
African americans---Social life and customs
African american scholars----Biography
Critics----United States----Biography
PS29.G28 / A3 1994
92 GAT
Colored people : a memoir / Henry Louis Gates, Jr - 1st ed - New York : Vintage Books , 1995, c1994. - xvi, 216 p. ; 22 cm.
The 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.
9780679739197
93012256
Gates, Henry Louis
African americans---Social life and customs
African american scholars----Biography
Critics----United States----Biography
PS29.G28 / A3 1994
92 GAT
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