Loose Canons by Henry Louis Gates

Loose Canons by Henry Louis Gates

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A collection of the author's essays on the politics of multiculturalism and the importance of the black tradition in American culture. It includes discussion of the political, social and cultural dimensions of the "canon issue", and illustrates its ramifications.

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Loose Canons by Henry Louis Gates

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. on the politics of multiculturalism. These essays touch upon the political, social and cultural dimensions of the "canon issue", and illustrate how its ramifications extend far beyond the syllabuses of college literature courses.
Gates, Henry Louis: - Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Ph.D.Cambridge), is Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and American Research, Harvard University. He is the author of Life Upon These Shores: Looking at African American History, 1513-2008; Black in Latin America; Tradition and the Black Atlantic: Critical Theory in the African Diaspora; Faces of America; Figures in Black: Words, Signs, and the Racial Self; The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Criticism; Loose Canons: Notes on the Culture Wars; Colored People: A Memoir; The Future of Race with Cornel West; Wonders of the African World; Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man; and The Trials of Phillis Wheatley. His is also the writer, producer, and narrator of PBS documentaries Finding Your Roots; Black in Latin America; Faces of America; African American Lives 1 and 2; Looking for Lincoln; America Beyond the Color Line; and Wonders of the African World. He is the editor of African American National Biography with Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, and The Dictionary of African Biography with Anthony Appiah; Encyclopedia Africana with Anthony Appiah; and The Bondwoman's Narrative by Hannah Crafts, as well as editor-in-chief of TheRoot.com.
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ISBN 13 9780195075199
ISBN 10 0195075196
Titel Loose Canons
Autor Henry Louis Gates
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Bindungsart Hardback
Verlag Oxford University Press Inc
Erscheinungsjahr 1992-04-30
Seitenanzahl 218
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