Getting on
Joyce Carol Oates, 12 January 1995
Colored People: A Memoir
by Henry Louis Gates.
Viking, 216 pp., £16, January 1995,0 670 85737 8 Show More
by Henry Louis Gates.
Viking, 216 pp., £16, January 1995,
“... by the gifted black writers Brent Staples (Parallel Time: Growing Up in Black and White) and John Edgar Wideman (Fatheralong: A Meditation on Fathers and Sons, Race and Society). One wonders what Gates’s fate might have been if he had been born in a black urban ghetto, and not in Piedmont, West Virginia. Among other things, Colored People is a testament to ... ”