Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man was written by and Henry Louis Gates, Jr.. The 256 page book was published by Vintage in 2011 (originally in 1997) with an ISBN 10 of 0307765652. Most books are now available in ebook, pdf and audible formats. If you need more information about this publication, it can be purchased at Amazon.com or Google Books. If the book is older and/or out of print book try to locate a copy on eBay.com. Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man mentions 1 serial killers including Henry Louis Wallace. The author Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has 1 book(s) listed on Killer.Cloud used for the purpose of documenting facts about Serial Killers listed in our database.

Book Summary

"This is a book of stories," writes Henry Louis Gates, "and all might be described as 'narratives of ascent.'" As some remarkable men talk about their lives, many perspectives on race and gender emerge. For the notion of the unitary black man, Gates argues, is as imaginary as the creature that the poet Wallace Stevens conjured in his poem "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird." James Baldwin, Colin Powell, Harry Belafonte, Bill T. Jones, Louis Farrakhan, Anatole Broyard, Albert Murray -- all these men came from modest circumstances and all achieved preeminence. They are people, Gates writes, "who have shaped the world as much as they were shaped by it, who gave as good as they got." Three are writers -- James Baldwin, who was once regard...