674da32071 30,000+ Study Guides Save time with thousands of teacher-approved book and topic summaries. in English at Cambridge University. In the 1950s and earlier, Gates writes, life for black people in the Potomac Valley town of Piedmont, West Virginia had a sort of segregated peace. In "Colored People" Gates uses not abstract arguments but a colorful account of his childhood to explore and consider the contradictions. "She simply hated them," he writes, "hated them with a passion she seldom disclosed." So the time of which Mr.
It is a circus of memory, by turns entrancing and instructive; and mustering at times an anger that any militant would envy.He starts, as I mentioned, with his daughters. Blacks could patronize the luncheonette but only for takeout. It is a singularly open point; throughout his book Gates scatters the different racial terms with only seeming casualness. Many of us thought that enlightened politics excluded it." What distinguishes "Colored People" most is its great good humor. "We had all come back for it, the diaspora reversing itself. Race remains a tortuous issue. – the chairman of the Afro-American studies department at Harvard University – has traveled a great distance to eminence. select a genre ––––––– profiles reports essays reviews -or- select a subject ––––––– intellectual property psychoanalysis race literary journalism intellectuals .
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