Recensione:
“A cracking good read, something that all too few essay anthologies manage to be.”—Kirkus Reviews
“This fascinating collection offers a look at the variety of perspectives on the African diaspora and larger human experience.” —Booklist
"Both intensely personal and political."—Boston Globe
"These short stories, excerpts from novels, and thoughtful essays cover a broad range of subjects, experiences and perspectives from many of the best writers working today."—Sacramento Bee
L'autore:
Gerald Early is a noted essayist and American culture critic. A professor of English, African & African American studies, and American Culture Studies at Washington University in St. Louis, Early is the author of several books, including The Culture of Bruising: Essays on Prizefighting, Literature, and Modern American Culture, which won the 1994 National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism, and This Is Where I Came In: Black America in the 1960s. He is also editor of numerous volumes, including The Muhammad Ali Reader and The Sammy Davis, Jr. Reader. He served as a consultant on four of Ken Burns's documentary films, Baseball, Jazz, Unforgivable Blackness (Jack Johnson), and The War, and appeared in the first three as an on-air analyst on baseball and jazz, which both aired on PBS.
Debra J. Dickerson was educated at the University of Maryland, St. Mary’s University, and Harvard Law School. She has been both a senior editor and a contributing editor at U.S. News & World Report, and her work has also appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the Washington Post, the New Republic, Slate, the Village Voice, and Essence. She is the author of The End of Blackness and An American Story. She lives in Albany, New York.
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