ISBN:
0446532738
Language:
English
Pages:
XVI, 448 S.
Edition:
1. printing
DDC:
305.896/073
Keywords:
Schwarze. USA
;
African Americans Interviews
;
African Americans Social conditions 1975-
;
Social classes
;
Schwarze
;
Interview
;
Soziale Situation
;
USA
;
USA
;
USA
;
Soziale Situation
;
Schwarze
;
USA
;
Schwarze
;
Interview
Abstract:
"Henry Louis Gates, Jr., examines the surprising social and economic journey African Americans have made. Using the interviews he conducted for his PBS series, Professor Gates portrays a community united by shared memory and a strong, vibrant culture, yet divided by wealth and lack of opportunity - a people still struggling to ensure true equality for all." "Professor Gates traveled across the country interviewing forty-four famous and not-so-famous individuals from parts of the African-American community - the "Black Elite," "The New South," "Chicago's South Side," and "Black Hollywood." In their own words, each discusses what it means to be African American in the twenty-first century: from Maya Angelou and Morgan Freeman's reflections on "returning home" to the South...to convict "Eric Edwards" telling us how his peers find self-sufficiency and prove their adulthood...from an interracial couple describing how they cope with the remnants of racism in Birmingham to a single mother's insights into how life on Chicago's newly renovated South Side still presents its own particular obstacles and dangers."--BOOK JACKET.
