ISBN:
0684864185
,
0025173251
Language:
English
Pages:
415 S.
Edition:
1. Touchstone ed.
Series Statement:
A Touchstone book
DDC:
305.896073
Keywords:
Brown, Claude 〈1937-〉
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Noirs américains - États-Unis - New York (N.Y.) - Quartier de Harlem - Conditions sociales - 1945-1970
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Schwarze. USA
;
African Americans Biography
;
African Americans Social conditions
;
Schwarze
;
Rassendiskriminierung
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New York (N.Y.) - Quartier de Harlem - Conditions sociales - 1945-1970
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New York (N.Y.) - Quartier de Harlem
;
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) Social conditions
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New York (N.Y.) Social conditions
;
USA
;
Biografie
;
Fiktionale Darstellung
;
Biografie
;
Fiktionale Darstellung
;
USA
;
Schwarze
;
Rassendiskriminierung
Abstract:
"Manchild in the Promised Land is indeed one of the most remarkable autobiographies of our time. This thinly fictionalized account of Charles Brown's childhood as a hardened, streetwise criminal trying to survive the toughest streets of Harlem has been heralded as the definitive account of everyday life for the first generation of African Americans raised in the Northern ghettoes of the 1940s and 1950s ..."--Publisher's note on back cover.
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