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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827469803321

Autore

McClane Kenneth A. <1951->

Titolo

Color : essays on race, family, and history / / Kenneth A. McClane

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Notre Dame, Ind., : University of Notre Dame Press, c2009

ISBN

0-268-08669-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

x, 110 p. : ill

Collana

The African American intellectual heritage

Disciplina

814/.6

Soggetti

African American poets

African Americans - Social conditions - 1975-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Shadow boxing -- The Mitchell movement -- Teachers -- A King's holiday: a personal remembrance of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Color -- Hungers: reflections on affirmative action -- Musicals -- A love note: A.R. Ammons as teacher -- The 13th juror -- Driving.

Sommario/riassunto

A timely installment in our national narrative, Color is a chronicle of the black middle class, a group rarely written about with sensitivity and charity.