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Colored People
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
出版
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
, 2011-07-06
主題
Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies
Social Science / Discrimination
Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs
ISBN
0307764435
9780307764430
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=0IPN5KEoYHUC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
In a coming-of-age story as enchantingly vivid and ribald as anything Mark Twain or Zora Neale Hurston, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., recounts his childhood in the mill town of Piedmont, West Virginia, in the 1950s and 1960s and ushers readers into a gossip, of lye-and-mashed-potato “processes,” and of slyly stubborn resistance to the indignities of segregation.
A winner of the
Chicago Tribune
’s Heartland Award and the Lillian Smith Prize,
Colored People
is a pungent and poignant masterpiece of recollection, a work that extends and deepens our sense of African American history even as it entrances us with its bravura storytelling