Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man
What does it mean to be black and male in 20th-century America? The notion of the unitary "black man" is as illusory as the creature conjured up by Wallace Stevens in his poem Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, says Gates. With these eight essays--most of which appeared originally in The...
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What does it mean to be black and male in 20th-century America? The notion of the unitary "black man" is as illusory as the creature conjured up by Wallace Stevens in his poem Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, says Gates. With these eight essays--most of which appeared originally in The New Yorker--the chair of Harvard's Afro-American Studies department takes a close look at some of the most extraordinary figures of our time.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780679776666 (0679776664)
ASIN: 679776664
Publish date: February 3rd 1998
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
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