Colored People
A Memoir
New York : Vintage eBooks, [2011]
Format: Ebook
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Gives an indelible portrait of a vanished America. Born in 1950, Gates grew up in Piedmont (population 2,565), a West Virginia town perched on the side of a hill in the Allegheny Mountains. He was raised in a small, intimate, middle-class "colored" community where secrets and haircuts were prime commodities and the major social event was the annual mill picnic. It was a time when the United States was just crossing the threshold into desegregation. But Gates's story is not only a story about race. It is the story of a family, of a village, and of a special time and place in American history.
Subjects:
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. -- Childhood and youth.
African Americans -- West Virginia -- Social life and customs.
African American scholars -- Biography.
Critics -- United States -- Biography.
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. -- Childhood and youth.
African Americans -- West Virginia -- Social life and customs.
African American scholars -- Biography.
Critics -- United States -- Biography.
ISBN:
9780307764430
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