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A remembrance of childhood and youth in the 1950s and 1960s that is almost elegiac in its soft tone. Gates is a noted scholar who's currently head of the African American Studies Department at Harvard; he was born and raised in the little community of Piedmont, West Virginia. It's a place of physical beauty--and, obviously, from his eloquent words, a place where, despite the separateness its black citizens felt, there existed a "sort of segregated peace." Without anger, Gates explains that, as he grew into an awareness of sexuality and religion, he was also aware of a color line in Piedmont. Gates nonetheless imparts a definite sense that he enjoyed a reasonable degree of comfort and security as he passed from child to young adult. The civil rights movement came slowly to Piedmont, mostly by way of television pictures of strife and reaction taking place elsewhere. The town no longer exists as it did, but Gates' ease with himself is due to a large extent to how the town was back then. His is an important document--to say nothing of a beautiful work of prose--in the literature of growing up. Hand his book to any reader keen on autobiography. Brad Hooper
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One of the country's top black scholars offers a tender memoir of his youth in a West Virginia paper mill town in the 1950s and '60s. Gates (African-American Studies/Harvard) trades the academic jargon of his literary criticism (as in Loose Canons, 1992) for a dead-on conversational voice threaded with black vernacular. ``I am not native to the great black metropolises,'' he declares at the outset, yet in Piedmont, a town of 2,100 (circa 1950) in northeastern West Virginia, race contoured existence. The civil rights era, pictured on television, arrived slowly, as ``school was virtually the only integrated arena'' after Brown v. Board of Education. But Gates's world was rich: He describes sex education in a talky barbershop, self-righteous teetotalers on his mother's side, and card-playing punsters on his father's. He battled with his sardonic father, a millworker; retreated to the church to cope with a depressive mother; grew enamored of Africa in current events class; and became a reader to bridge the gap with a white girl whose friendship he lost as puberty arrived. In church camp, at the time of the Watts riots, he first read James Baldwin, whose picture seemed ``so very Negro.'' Gates began battling with his relatives as he grew the first Afro in town, proclaimed himself black, and moved on to the local state college five miles away. But he knows enough now to wince at some of his rhetoric and to celebrate his mother's earlier civil rights protests. Gates ends the book with a warm portrait of the last segregated black mill picnic, which he convincingly depicts as a loss to the black community under integration. Gates left West Virginia for Yale and a meteoric career; the worlds he has seen since should someday make a terrific sequel. -- Copyright ©1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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"On the side of a hill in the Allegheny Mountains, two and a half hours northwest of Washington and southeast of Pittsburgh, slathered along the ridge of ""Old Baldie"" mountain like butter on the jagged side of a Parker House roll, sits Piedmont, West Virgin" Lesen Sie die erste Seite
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Ich habe das Buch für ein Seminar der Anglistik in der Uni Essen gelesen. Das Seminar hieß "Race and Racism in America". Als ich Anfing das Buch zu lesen, es standen noch andere 4 zur Auswahl, war ich sofort sehr angetan. Zunächst einmal hat mir der Einband sehr gut gefallen. Zu Beginn schreibt der Autor, also Henry Louis Gates, aus der Ich-Perspektive über sein Leben als Kind in Piedmont. Ich habe das Buch natürlich für das Seminar bearbeitet und alles angestrichen, was das Verhältnis von Schwarzen und Weißen in den 50er Jahren bis heute beschreibt. Ich muss sagen, mein Buch ist bunt... ;-) Man erfährt unheimlich viel darüber, wie dunkelhäutige Menschen sich in der Zeit der Segregation gesehen haben. Normalerweise erhält man durch andere Bücher zu diesem Thema reine Sachinformationen, die hier nicht zu kurz kommen, aber auch nicht im Mittelpunkt stehen, oder eben die Situation aus der Sicht der weißen Amerikaner. Statt "Black people were seperated in restaurants." findet man also "But it was white people who smelled bad, Mama always said." Diese Perspektive macht das Buch sehr interessant. Es liest sich sehr flüssig und man hat das Gefühl, auf jeder Seite etwas Neues zu lernen. Ich möchte das Buch hiermit also uneingeschränkt empfehlen...
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Henry Louis Gates offers a deep insight into blacks` everyday experiences between 1950 and 1970 by telling his own true story.
According to the preface, he wants both his children and his readership to understand the difficulties of forging something like an identity of one's own as a black person, especially in a country whose wealth could only develop on the basis of slavery.
The reader gets to know the different attitudes colored people had towards themselves, reaching from the attempt to behave "blacker than black" to complicated "hair processes" in order to make it look less African, less kinky. He learns about how white people dared to treat blacks until the second half of the 20th century - and he enjoys a very witty, very intelligent coming-of-age story.
Gates sometimes tends to change the topics quite quickly, which means that his story is definitely not a story to be told straightforward. Therefore, I sometimes missed the context of some passages. None the less, Gates thereby conjures up the image of an author who is really just telling you his story, connecting to it every other memory that comes into his mind.
The book is definitely worth reading.
According to the preface, he wants both his children and his readership to understand the difficulties of forging something like an identity of one's own as a black person, especially in a country whose wealth could only develop on the basis of slavery.
The reader gets to know the different attitudes colored people had towards themselves, reaching from the attempt to behave "blacker than black" to complicated "hair processes" in order to make it look less African, less kinky. He learns about how white people dared to treat blacks until the second half of the 20th century - and he enjoys a very witty, very intelligent coming-of-age story.
Gates sometimes tends to change the topics quite quickly, which means that his story is definitely not a story to be told straightforward. Therefore, I sometimes missed the context of some passages. None the less, Gates thereby conjures up the image of an author who is really just telling you his story, connecting to it every other memory that comes into his mind.
The book is definitely worth reading.
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This is a great book. No doubt about it. For those who only know Skip Gates from his combatative role in the PBS "Wonders of Africa" series, this book will be a revelation. As a memoir of a young man growing up Black in the segregated south, there are some wonderful epiphanies for people who did not have that experience. As a peice of literary writing, it's a wonderful example of craft and spirit and talent.
I don't always agree with the way in which Prof. Gates places himself in the politics of academia or the pronouncements he sometimes makes about being of color in these United States, but he sure tells a good story. Through sharing his early years, some of the complexities of the man are made understandable. I leave it to others to decide exactly what that means.
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Warm and funny and haunting and serious.
So removed from my own experience but a story told with such grace, it will always be one of my favorite books. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 26. Mai 1999 veröffentlicht
Funny, yet thougt provoking!
This memoir had me laughing throughout, but it was also though provoking. The descriptions were so vivid, you believed you are right there in that little town witnessing Mr. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 16. April 1999 veröffentlicht
Absolutely Wonderful....
Mr. Gates invites readers into his world with a very detailed and rich account of his early childhood and the journey he took to become one of the most influential intellectuals... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 10. Oktober 1997 von mclemorf@ncr.disa.mil
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