Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man (1998) by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Abstract: (5 pp) Although these biographies have been reviewed as a collection of profiles, the author addresses his own work as "narratives of ascent." The basic question asked is what makes us who we are; how does self-definition figure in the mix? These black men are well past the "what do you wanna be when you grow up phase," and are verbally painted for us by Gates, as msters of their own identities.

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Subcatagory: Biographies

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