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Cover: 9780593299784 | Black Box | Jr. Henry Louis Gates | Buch | Einband - fest (Hardcover)

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"A magnificent, foundational reckoning with how Black Americans have used the written word to define and redefine themselves, in resistance to the lies of racism and often in heated disagreement with each other, over the course of the country's history. Distilled over many years from Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s legendary Harvard introductory course in African American Studies, The Black Box: Writing the Race, is the story of Black self-definition in America through the prism of the writers who have led the way. From Phillis Wheatley and Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington, to Zora Neale Hurston and Richard Wright, James Baldwin and Toni Morrison--these writers used words to create a livable world--a "home"--for Black people destined to live out their lives in a bitterly racist society. It is a book grounded in the beautiful irony that a community formed legally and conceptually by its oppressors to justify brutal sub-human bondage, transformed itself through the word into a community whose foundational definition was based on overcoming one of history's most pernicious lies. This collective act of resistance and transcendence is at the heart of its self-definition as a "community." Out of that contested ground has flowered a resilient, creative, powerful, diverse culture formed by people who have often disagreed markedly about what it means to be "Black," and about how best to shape a usable past out of the materials at hand to call into being a more just and equitable future. This is the epic story of how, through essays and speeches, novels, plays, and poems, a long line of creative thinkers has unveiled the contours of--and resisted confinement in--the "black box" inside which this "nation within a nation" has been assigned, willy nilly, from the nation's founding through to today. This is a book that records the compelling saga of the creation of a people"--

Über den Autor

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, journalist, cultural critic, and institution builder, Professor Gates has authored or coauthored more than twenty books, including Stony the Road, The Black Church, and The Black Box, and created more than twenty documentary films, including his groundbreaking genealogy series Finding Your Roots. His six-part PBS documentary, The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross, earned an Emmy Award, a Peabody Award, and an NAACP Image Award. This series and his PBS documentary series Reconstruction: America after the Civil War were both honored with the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PREFACE. The Black Box xiii
ONE. RACE, REASON, AND WRITING 1
TWO. WHAT’S IN A NAME? 41
THREE. WHO’S YOUR DADDY?: Frederick Douglass and the Politics of Self-Representation 79
FOUR. WHO’S YOUR MAMA?: The Politics of Disrespectability 101
FIVE. THE “TRUE ART OF A RACE’S PAST”: Art, Propaganda, and the New Negro 130
SIX. MODERNISM AND ITS DISCONTENTS: Zora Neale Hurston and Richard Wright Play the Dozens 163
SEVEN. SELLOUTS VS. RACE MEN: On the Concept of Passing 185
CONCLUSION. Policing the Color Line 213
Acknowledgments 229
Notes 233
Index 253

Erscheinungsjahr:	2024
Rubrik:	Literaturwissenschaft
Medium:	Buch
Inhalt:	Einband - fest (Hardcover)
ISBN-13:	9780593299784
ISBN-10:	0593299787
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Hersteller:	Penguin Publishing Group
Maße:	148 x 217 x 31 mm
Von/Mit:	Jr. Henry Louis Gates
Erscheinungsdatum:	19.03.2024
Gewicht:	0,46 kg

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