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From an American Book Award-winning author comes a pungent and poignant masterpiece of recollection that ushers readers into a now-vanished "colored" world and extends and deepens our sense of African-American history, even as it entrances us with its bravura storytelling.
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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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- PublisherKnopf
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0679421793
- ISBN 13 9780679421795
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages216
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