Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Random House Inc
- Publish date: 02/01/1998
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What does it mean to be black and male in twentieth-century America? The notion of the unitary "black man" is as illusory as the creature conjured up by Wallace Stevens in his poem "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird", says Henry Louis Gates, Jr. With these eight essays (most of which originally appeared in The, New Yorker) the chair of Harvard's Afro-American Studies department takes a close look at some of the most extraordinary figures of our time.
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Colin Powell, Harry Belafonte, Louis Farrakhan, Anatole Bro-yard, James Baldwin, Bill T. Jones, Albert Murray, and others emerge here, often speaking with unprecedented candor about their dramatic lives. The result is a magnificent portrait gallery of "representative" black men -- which is to say, most unrepresentative ones indeed.
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