Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown

Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown

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This thinly fictionalized account of Claude Brown's childhood as a streetwise criminal trying to survive the toughest streets of Harlem of everyday life for the first generation African American raised in the Northern ghettos of the 1940s and 1950s.

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Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown

This thinly fictionalized account of Claude Brown's childhood as a streetwise criminal trying to survive the toughest streets of Harlem of everyday life for the first generation African American raised in the Northern ghettos of the 1940s and 1950s.
Brown, Claude: -

Claude Brown (1937-2002) was born in New York City and grew up in Harlem. At age seventeen, after several terms in reform school, he left Harlem for Greenwich Village. He went on to receive a bachelor's degree from Howard University and attended law school. He also wrote a book called The Children of Ham in 1976. His book Manchild in the Promised Land evolved from an article he published in Dissent magazine during his first year at college.

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ISBN 13 9780684864181
ISBN 10 0684864185
Title Manchild in the Promised Land
Author Claude Brown
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Simon & Schuster
Year published 1999-06-03
Number of pages 415
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.