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Colored People

A Memoir

By Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

By Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

By Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

By Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

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Paperback $16.00

Apr 11, 1995 | ISBN 9780679739197

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Jul 06, 2011 | ISBN 9780307764430

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    About Colored People

    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

    About Colored People

    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

    About Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

    Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. An award-winning filmmaker, literary scholar, and institution builder, Professor Gates has authored numerous books, including… More about Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

    About Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

    Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. An award-winning filmmaker, literary scholar, and institution builder, Professor Gates has authored numerous books, including… More about Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

    Product Details

    Category: Biography & Memoir

    Paperback | $16.00
    Published by Vintage
    Apr 11, 1995 | 240 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780679739197

    Category: Biography & Memoir

    Ebook | $9.99
    Published by Vintage
    Jul 06, 2011 | 240 Pages | ISBN 9780307764430

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    Praise

    "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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