Voices in Black & White : writings on race in America from Harper's magazine / with an introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. ; edited by Katharine Whittemore and Gerald Marzorati.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Whittemore, Katharine.

Marzorati, Gerald.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

American retrospective series

The American retrospective series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Race relations.

United States.

Race relations.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

xvi, 247 pages ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Voices in Black and White

Place of Publication:

New York : Franklin Square Press, [1993]

Summary:

Introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.Mark Twain, Ralph Ellison, James Bladwin, William Faulkner, Maya Angelou, Shelby Steele, William Styron and others examine race in America.

Contents:

Slavery in Hannibal / Mark Twain

This quiet dust / William Styron

My white father / Priscilla Butler

Why I returned / Arna Bontemps

Harlem is nowhere / Ralph Ellison

I know why the caged bird sings / Maya Angelou

My daughter married a Negro / Anonymous

Race and fear / William Faulkner

When Morpheus held him / Itabari Njeri

In search of Martin Luther King, Jr. / James Baldwin

Voices from the South : 1965 / Robert Coles

Confessions of a blue-chip Black / Roger Wilkins

A paleness of heart / Mary Richie

Soul in suburbia / Orde Coombs

Portraits in Black / Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

What can government do? / Jesse Jackson and Charles Murray

An inner-city counter-reality / James Traub.

I'm Black, you're White, who's innocent? / Shelby Steele

Black like ... Shirley Temple / Gerald Early

The colorings of childhood / David Updike.

Notes:

Articles published 1922-1992.

Other Format:

Online version: Voices in Black & White.

ISBN:

1879957078

9781879957077

187995706X

9781879957060

OCLC:

26502990