You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays by Margaret Genevieve West, Henry Louis Gates Jr.

You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays

Margaret Genevieve West, Henry Louis Gates Jr.

464 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

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Collectively, these essays showcase the roles enslavement and Jim Crow have played in intensifying Black people's inner lives and culture rather than destroying it. She argues that in the process of surviving, Black people re-interpreted every as...

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