Everybody Say Freedom: Everything You Need to Know About African-American History - Softcover

Newman, Richard; Sawyer, Marcia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0452275938 ISBN 13: 9780452275935

Verlag: Penguin, 1996

Inhaltsangabe

Utilizing a lively question-and-answer format, a historical reference provides an eye-opening overview of African-American history--from the Middle Passage to the present day--and the contributions of African Americans to the United States. Original.

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Henry Louis Gates, Jr. was Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and Africana Studies at Cornell University, and also tenured at Yale, Duke, and Harvard, where he was appointed W.E.B. DuBois professor of humanities in 1991. Professor Gates is the author of Figures in Black: Words, Signs, and the Racial Self, Wonders of the African World, The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man, Loose Cannons: Notes on the Culture Wars, and Colored People: A Memoir. With Cornel West, he co-wrote The African American Century: How Black Americans Have Shaped Our Country and The Future of the Race. He is also the editor of the critically-acclaimed edition of Our Nig, an annotated reprint of Harriet E. Wilson’s 1859 novel, The Slave’s Narrative (with the late Charles T. Davis), Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African-American Experience, Six Women’s Slave Narratives, and In the House of Oshugbo: Critical Essays on Wole Soyinka. He is a recipient of the MacArthur Prize.

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• Verlag: Penguin
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0452275938
• ISBN 13: 9780452275935
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 336
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