America Behind The Color Line - Dialogues with African Americans The Companion Book to the PBS Documentary

Gates, Jr., Henry Louis

ISBN 10: 0446532738 / ISBN 13: 9780446532730

Published by Warner Books, New York, 2004

About this Item

Signed and inscribed by the author on the title page, "To John - with Best Wishes! Henry Louis Gates, Jr." Brown hardcover with gilt spine lettering, first edition in dustjacket. A very good copy, clean and straight with minor edgewear, and light bumping to the corners and spine tips. Unclipped jacket is also very good with ruffling along the top panel edge, bright and attractive. 448 pp., indexed, a collection of interviews and conversations.

Seller Inventory # 2366

Bibliographic Details

• Title: America Behind The Color Line - Dialogues with African Americans The Companion Book to the PBS Documentary
• Publisher: Warner Books, New York
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0446532738
• ISBN 13: 9780446532730
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: very good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Sociology
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE::Ethnic Studies::African-America...
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE::Social Classes

About this title

Synopsis

The companion volume to the new PBS documentary looks at four different elements of the African-American experience--Black Hollywood, The Black Elite, The Ghetto, and The New South--as well as the legacy of the Civil Rights movement, in a collection of provocative essays based on interviews with Colin Powell, Morgan Freeman, Vernon Jordan, and other notables. 50,000 first printing.

About the Author

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., lives in Massachusetts and is also a contributor to The New Yorker.