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Reviewed on June 10, 2011
With this companion to the recently aired PBS documentary of the same name, Gates (Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard Univ.; Faces of America) completes a three-continent trilogy on Afro-descended traditions that began with Wonders of the African World and followed with America Behind the Color Line. Here he pursues the question of what it has meant to be black in the Americas. The question, he says, is best answe...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
on onJune 10, 2011 | LJXpress
With this companion to the recently aired PBS documentary of the same name, Gates (Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard Univ.; Faces of America) completes a three-continent trilogy on Afro-descended traditions that began with Wonders of the African World and followed with America Behind the Color Line. Here he pursues the question of what it has meant to be black in the Americas. The question, he says, is best answe...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
