Color: Essays on Race, Family, and History - Couverture souple

McClane, Kenneth A.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0268035156 ISBN 13 : 9780268035150

Editeur : University of Notre Dame Press, 2009

Synopsis

In 1991, acclaimed poet Kenneth A. McClane published Walls: Essays, 1985-1990, a volume of essays dealing with life in Harlem, the death of his alcoholic brother, and the complexities of being black and middle-class in America. Now, in Color: Essays on Race, Family, and History, McClane contributes further to his self-described "autobiographical sojourn" with a second collection of interconnected essays. In McClane's words, "All concern race, although they, like the human spirit, wildly sweep and yaw."

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. In evocative, trenchant, and poetic prose, McClane employs the art of the memoirist to explore the political and the personal. He details the poignant narrative of racial progress as witnessed by his family during the 1950s, '60s, and '70s. We learn of his parents' difficult upbringing in Boston, where they confronted much racism; of the struggles they and McClane encountered as they became the first blacks to enter previously all-white institutions, including the oldest independent school in the United States; and of the part his parents played in the civil rights movement, working with Dr. King and others. The book ends with a tender account of his parents in the throes of Alzheimer's disease, which claimed both their lives.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Kenneth A. McClane is the W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of Literature at Cornell University. He is the author of Color: Essays on Race, Family, and History (University of Notre Dame Press, 2009), and seven poetry collections.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Notre Dame Press
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0268035156
• ISBN 13: 9780268035150
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 120
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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