America Behind the Color Line: Dialogues with African Americans

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.

ISBN 10: 0446693901 / ISBN 13: 9780446693905

Published by Warner Books (NY), 2005

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reprint edition. 448 pages. 8.75x6.00x1.25 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: America Behind the Color Line: Dialogues with African Americans
• Publisher: Warner Books (NY)
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0446693901
• ISBN 13: 9780446693905
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.61 kilograms

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Synopsis

The readable companion, in the oral-history tradition of Studs Terkel, to the PBS documentary series, peeking behind the veil "that still, far too often, separates black America from white."



Renowned scholar and New York Times bestselling author Gates delivers a stirring and authoritative companion to the major new PBS documentary America Behind the Color Line. The book includes thought-provoking essays from Colin Powell, Morgan Freeman, Russell Simmons, Vernon Jordan, Alicia Keys, Bernie Mac, and Quincy Jones.

About the Author

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He is the author of numerous books, including Colored People, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man, In Search of Our Roots, and the American Book Award-winning The Signifying Monkey. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.