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An account of growing up in the black community of the 1950s and 1960s in America, in an atmosphere of segregation and prejudice. Henry Louis Gates grew up in Piedmont, West Virginia, which was a little hill town surrounded by beautiful countryside and a papermill which provided work for the local people. He describes the sense of family that pervaded the community, the traumas of teenage love and the free sexual relations which provided endless gossip. Standards were strictly defined: integrated education was permitted but cross-racial dating was not; Gates's mother was able to become the head of the PTA, but his older brother's scholarly career was affected because of his race. Eventually it is television that brings the civil rights movement to Piedmont and attitudes begin to change: Gates is able to become a celebrated scholar and his mother triumphantly buys the house where she was once employed as a cleaning woman.
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"Affecting, beautifully written and morally complex...The heart of the memoir is Gates' portrait of his family, and its placement in a black society whose strength, richness and self-confidence thrived in the darkness of segregation."--Richard Eder, The Los Angeles Times "[Colored People] may well become a classic of American memoir."--The Boston Globe
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Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is Professor of English and Chairman of Afro-American Studies at Harvard University.
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- PublisherPenguin
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0140240950
- ISBN 13 9780140240955
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages240
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Very Good. An account of growing up in the black community of the 1950s and 1960s in America, in an atmosphere of segregation and prejudice. Henry Louis Gates grew up in Piedmont, West Virginia, which was a little hill town surrounded by beautiful countryside and a papermill which provided work for the local people. He describes the sense of family that pervaded the community, the traumas of teenage love and the free sexual relations which provided endless gossip. Standards were strictly defined: integrated education was permitted but cross-racial dating was not; Gates's mother was able to become the head of the PTA, but his older brother's scholarly career was affected because of his race. Eventually it is television that brings the civil rights movement to Piedmont and attitudes begin to change: Gates is able to become a celebrated scholar and his mother triumphantly buys the house where she was once employed as a cleaning woman. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seller Inventory # GOR001452681
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Good. 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. 216 pages. Seller Inventory # 1458298
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Book Description Paperback. 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 This is a used book in good condition, meaning that it shows signs of wear but has no major defects.Most of our images are sourced automatically, so the book cover shown might be different to the edition we have in stock. Seller Inventory # 16698770
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