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Summary: "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:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 908.996 GATGates, Henry Louis
Summary: "A powerful new history of the Black church in America as the Black community's abiding rock and its fortress"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 277.3 GATGates, Henry Louis
Summary: "A profound new rendering of the struggle by African-Americans for equality after the Civil War and the violent counter-revolution that resubjugated them, as seen through the prism of the war of images and ideas that have left an enduring racist stain on the American mind. The abolition of slavery in the aftermath of the Civil War is a familiar story, as is the civil rights revolution that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 GATCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 GATGates, Henry Louis
Summary: "Beginning with the assassination of Malcolm X in February 1965, And Still I Rise: From Black Power to the White House explores the last half-century of the African American experience. More than fifty years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act and the birth of Black Power, the United States has both a Black president and Black CEOs running Fortune 500 companies-- and a large Black...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 GATGates, Henry Louis
Summary: "From one of our premier writers, scholars, and public intellectuals: a surprising, inspiring, often boldly infuriating, highly instructive and entertaining compendium of curiosities regarding African Americans. In 1934, 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro With Complete Proof: A Short Cut to the World History of the Negro was published by Joel A. Rogers, a largely self-educated black journalist...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2017