The Black Box - Writing the Race

A must for scholars, yet still accessible to general audiences, by arguably the preeminent scholar of African American studies. This gem brilliantly reflects multiple depictions of what it means to be a Black American amid complex, structured interracial and color-based discrimination discourses, in which writing and language are keys>

About the author

Henry Louis Gates Jr is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and founding director of the Hutchins Centre for African and African American Research at Harvard University. An award-winning filmmaker, literary scholar, journalist, cultural critic, and institution builder, Professor Gates has authored or coauthored more than twenty books and created more than twenty documentary films, including his groundbreaking genealogy series Finding Your Roots. His six-part PBS documentary, The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross, earned an Emmy Award, a Peabody Award, and an NAACP Image Award. This series and his PBS documentary series Reconstruction: America after the Civil War were both honored with the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award. His most recent PBS documentary is Gospel.

Product details

• Authors: Henry Louis Gates, Gates Henry Louis
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 20.03.2025
• EAN: 9781802064636
• ISBN: 978-1-80206-463-6
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; North America, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / African American & Black, Literary studies: from c 2000, Relating to African American / Black American people, Social groups, communities and identities, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / African American & Black