America Behind the Color Line: Dialogues with African Americans

The readable companion, in the oral-history tradition of Studs Terkel, to the PBS documentary series, peeking behind the veil "that still, far too often, separates black America from white."
Renowned scholar and New York Times bestselling author Gates delivers a stirring and authoritative companion to the major new PBS documentary America Behind the Color Line. The book includes thought-provoking essays from Colin Powell, Morgan Freeman, Russell Simmons, Vernon Jordan, Alicia Keys, Bernie Mac, and Quincy Jones.

Author: Henry Louis Jr. Gates
Publisher: Warner Books
Published: 01/01/2005
Pages: 448
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.30d
ISBN13: 9780446693905
ISBN10: 0446693901
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | American | African American & Black Studies
- Political Science | Civil Rights
- Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional | General

About the Author
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He is the author of numerous books, including Colored People, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man, In Search of Our Roots, and the American Book Award-winning The Signifying Monkey. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.