{"product_id":"colored-people-a-memoir-paperback","title":"Colored People: A Memoir - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHenry Louis Gates\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a coming-of-age story as enchantingly vivid and ribald as anything Mark Twain or Zora Neale Hurston, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., recounts his childhood in the mill town of Piedmont, West Virginia, in the 1950s and 1960s and ushers readers into a gossip, of lye-and-mashed-potato \"processes,\" and of slyly stubborn resistance to the indignities of segregation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A winner of the \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e's Heartland Award and the Lillian Smith Prize, \u003ci\u003eColored People\u003c\/i\u003e is a pungent and poignant masterpiece of recollection, a work that extends and deepens our sense of African American history even as it entrances us with its bravura storytelling\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eHenry Louis Gates, Jr., is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University. The author of numerous books, including the widely acclaimed memoir \u003ci\u003eColored People\u003c\/i\u003e, Professor Gates has also edited several anthologies and is coeditor with Kwame Anthony Appiah of Encarta Africana, an encyclopedia of the African Diaspora. An influential cultural critic, he is a frequent contributor to \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker \u003c\/i\u003eand other publications and is the recipient of many honors, including a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship and the National Humanities Medal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 7.9 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 11, 1995\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51756919521568,"sku":"9780679739197","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/5e63aee11c56d0288e8ad5ff09aec5a7.webp?v=1780089208","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/colored-people-a-memoir-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}