num_pages: 216
description: From an American Book Award-winning author comes a pungent and poignant masterpiece of recollection that ushers readers into a now-vanished "colored" world and extends and deepens our sense of African-American history, even as it entrances us with its bravura storytelling.From the Trade Paperback edition.
language: English
title: Colored People: A Memoir
titlecomplete: Colored People: A Memoir
genres: Biography, The United States Of America, Coming Of Age, Memoir, Nonfiction, Autobiography, Biography Memoir, Race, History, African American
ratings_count: 1019
awards: awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize
category: Nonfiction, awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Weatherford Award, awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Lillian Smith Book Award
publisher: Knopf