- African americans, segregation, African americans, history, Reconstruction (u.s. history, 1865-1877), White supremacy movements
"A profound new rendering of the struggle by African Americans for equality after the Civil War and the violent counterrevolution that resubjugated them, as seen through the prism of the war of images and ideas that have left an enduring stain on the American mind.
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- Author
- Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
- First published
- 2019
- Pages
- 320
- Publisher
- Penguin Press
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780525559535
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Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr. is an American literary critic, teacher, historian, filmmaker and public intellectual who currently serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He has discovered what are considered the first books by African-American writers, both of them women, and has published extensively on appreciating African-American literature as part of the Western canon. - Wikipedia
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