THE BLACK BOX: WRITING THE RACE

Une méditation personnelle sur l’évolution et la signification même de l’identité afro-américaine.

A foundational reckoning with how Black Americans have used the written word to define and redefine themselves. Distilled over many years from Henry Louis Gates Jr's Harvard course in African American Studies, this book is the story of Black self-definition in America through the prism of the writers who have led the way. These writers used words to create a liveable world – a “home” – for Black people destined to live in a bitterly racist society. This is a community that defined and transformed itself in defiance of oppression and lies. Out of that contested ground has flowered a resilient, creative, powerful, diverse culture formed by people who have often disagreed markedly about what it means to be 'Black', and about how best to shape a usable past out of the materials at hand, to call into being a more just and equitable future.

Henry Louis Jr. Gates - The Black Box: writing the race - 9781802064636 - 15,90 €