The omni-Americans, new perspectives on Black experience and American culture. / Albert Murray.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Murray, Albert.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans.

Penn Provenance:

Murray, Albert (autograph) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

12 unnumbered pages, 227 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 23 cm

Distribution:

New York, Distributed by E. P. Dutton.

Place of Publication:

New York, Outerbridge & Dienstfrey, 1970.

Contents:

Introduction

1. The Omni-Americans

2. The Illusive Black Image. Introduction; Image and Unlikeness in Harlem; Oneupmanship in Colorful America; The Illusive Black Middle Class; Two Case Histories; Who That Say, What Dat, Every Time Us Do That?; A Clutch of Social Science Fiction Fiction; James Baldwin, Protest Fiction, and the Blues Tradition

3. Getting It Together. Identity, Diversity, and the Mainstream; Black Pride in Mobile, Alabama; Black Studies and the Aims of Education

Epilogue. Situation Normal: All Fouled Up.

Notes:

Jacket Design: Hess and/or Antupit.

"This book designed by Samuel N. Antupit, has been set in Memphis Medium, a Linotype variation of slab serif types fir named 'Antique; which appeared in the 1815 speciment book of Vincent Figgins."

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy signed by the author.

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy has dust jacket retained.

ISBN:

0876900015

OCLC:

67093