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Number of Pages
272
Age Group
All
Language
English
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Book Summary
A foundational reckoning with how Black Americans have used the written word to define and redefine themselves over the course of the countrys history.Distilled over many years from Henry Louis Gates Jrs legendary Harvard course in African American Studies, The Black Box: Writing the Race is the story of Black self-definition in America through the prism of the writers who have led the way. From Phillis Wheatley and Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington, to Zora Neale Hurston and Richard Wright, James Baldwin and Toni Morrison, these writers used words to create a liveable world – a “home” – for Black people destined to live in a bitterly racist society.This is a community that defined and transformed itself in defiance of oppression and lies; a collective act of resistance and transcendence that is at the heart of its self-definition. Out of that contested ground has flowered a resilient, creative, powerful, diverse culture formed by people who have often disagreed markedly about what it means to be Black, and about how best to shape a usable past out of the materials at hand, to call into being a more just and equitable future.This is the epic story of how, through essays and speeches, novels, plays and poems, a long line of creative thinkers has unveiled the contours of – and resisted confinement in – the black box that this “nation within a nation” has been assigned, from its founding to today. It is a book that records the compelling saga of the creation of a people.
Product Details
Author
Jr. Henry Louis Gates
Publisher
Vintage
Number of Pages
272
Language
English
ISBN
9781802064636
Reading Age
All
Dimensions
13 x 1.8 x 19.8 cm
AED 66.00