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Bearing Witness: Selections from African-American Autobiography in the Twentieth Century
This collection from the rich literature of African American autobiography documents the experience of being black in America, from slavery to present day, in the words of Frederick Douglass, Toni Morrison, and forty other contributors.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
Paperback
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385 pages
Published
November 17th 1998
by Pantheon
(first published August 6th 1991)
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I read this book in high school and it introduced me to many writers who would become my favorite authors, companions and sages. bell hooks, Claude Brown, Angela Davis, Audre Lorde, James Baldwin and Malcolm X: my reading list never looked the same, nor did my understanding of the world.
certain misogynist and homophobic views of some of the authors were quite disappointing, but the good essays were so good that i give the book four stars. there were a lot of women writers included, too, which was awesome.
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Henry Louis Gates Jr. is a Professor of African and African-American Studies at Harvard University and Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research. He is well-known as a literary critic, an editor of literature, and a proponent of black literature and black cultural studies.
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