Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man
All but one originally published in theNew Yorker,these profiles work together to create a striking collective biography of the 20th-century African-American male in all his diversity. Figures as different asHarry BelafonteandColin Powellget equally perceptive treatment, though the essays on writerAlbert Murrayand literary criticAnatole Broyard(who passed for white) are particularly fine. Henry Louis Gates's pungent introduction bolsters his stature as our preeminent black intellectual, unapologetically immersed in race as a crucial element in American social discourse.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.