Colored People: A Memoir

In a coming-of-age story as enchantingly vivid and ribald as anything Mark Twain or Zora Neale Hurston, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., recounts his childhood in the mill town of Piedmont, West Virginia, in the 1950s and 1960s and ushers readers into a gossip, of lye-and-mashed-potato "processes," and of slyly stubborn resistance to the indignities of segregation.

A winner of the Chicago Tribune's Heartland Award and the Lillian Smith Prize, Colored People is a pungent and poignant masterpiece of recollection, a work that extends and deepens our sense of African American history even as it entrances us with its bravura storytelling

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 04/11/1995
ISBN: 9780679739197
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.70d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 03/06/1995
Publishers Weekly 12/09/1996