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
#2508875 in Books Harvard University Press 1991-11-01Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 .66 x 6.26 x 9.28l; 1.10 #File Name: 067491015X132 pages
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Monograph by a masterBy AveryThis is a 100-page monograph expanded from a talk about the resurrection of Confucianism which is freely available online. De Bary takes a sympathetic but unsparing look at Confucian government and its downsides. Of course; he is not the first to do so; Confucius himself was the first to criticize the shortcomings of other scholars. Anyway; it's an interesting attempt to navigate Confucian waters.
