The Black Box: Writing the Race Black History Du Bois and Booker T

Du Bois and Booker T

Paperback - The Mysteries

these unforgettable essays never fail to be “painfully honest and gloriously affirming” and hold “a mirror to your soul and to that of America” (Dorothy Roberts)

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The Black Box: Writing the Race Black History Du Bois and Booker THenry Louis Gates is a national treasure. Here, he returns with an intellectual and at times deeply personal meditation on the hard fought evolution and the very meaning of African American identity, calling upon our country to transcend its manufactured divisions. Isabel Wilkerson, author of The Warmth of Other Suns and Caste A magnificent, foundational reckoning with how Black Americans have used the written word to define and redefine themselves,