In search of Black America
Subtitle: discovering the African-American dream
By: David J. Dent.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 413
Subjects: African Americans -- Social conditions -- 1975-; African Americans -- Social life and customs; Middle class -- United States; African Americans -- Interviews
Genres: Interviews.
Description: "In Search of Black America is a work that looks at the lives of African Americans throughout the United States. David Dent, a noted journalist and professor, set out on a cross-country road trip into the heart of black America with stops in Detroit; Washington, D.C.; Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Gallipolis, Ohio; Seattle, Washington; Hampton, Virginia; and many other places, including Lawnside, New Jersey, a historically black town with strong roots and ties to the Underground Railroad.".

"Drawing from hundreds of hours of taped interviews and journalistic observation, Dent uncovers the widespread diversity of the lives of the black majority - middle and upper-middle-class African Americans. Along the way, Dent encounters a most eclectic and insightful array of characters.

Through their lives, he not only examines and questions the most common American beliefs about race and politics but also explores issues that go beyond race and touch on social and moral questions that Americans of any hue confront."--BOOK JACKET.