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78/100Critics
61/100Scholars
Author:
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Publisher:
Penguin Press
Date:
March 19, 2024
A reckoning with how Black Americans have used the written word to define and redefine themselves, in resistance to the lies of racism and often in heated disagreement with each other, over the course of the country's history.
What The Reviewers Say
Gates adroitly demonstrates how literature served as a site of self-interrogation and a pathway to liberation.
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This gem brilliantly reflects multiple depictions of what it means to be a Black American amid complex, structured interracial and color-based discrimination discourses, in which writing and language are keys..
The Black Box requires that readers rethink the ways we talk about race in America today. Gates’ passionate and compelling prose, and the book’s lucid details and insights, lay the historical and artistic groundwork for such conversations..
