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America Behind the Color Line: Dialogues with African Americans

America Behind the Color Line: Dialogues with African Americans Paperback - 2005

by Henry Louis Gates

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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.

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  • Title America Behind the Color Line: Dialogues with African Americans
  • Author Henry Louis Gates
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: First
  • Condition New
  • Pages 448
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Grand Central Publishing, New York
  • Date 2005-01-01
  • Features Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # ria9780446693905_pod
  • ISBN 9780446693905 / 0446693901
  • Weight 1.35 lbs (0.61 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 6 x 1.3 in (22.61 x 15.24 x 3.30 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1950-1999
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
  • Library of Congress subjects African Americans, Social classes - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003020629
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.896

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Summary

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.

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When I was growing up in the fifties, I could never have imagined that one of Harvard's most respected departments would be a Department of Afro-American Studies and that twenty professors would be teaching here at the turn of the century.

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.