You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays by Margaret Genevieve West, Henry Louis Gates Jr.
You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays

Margaret Genevieve West, Henry Louis Gates Jr.

You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays

Margaret Genevieve West, Henry Louis Gates Jr.

464 pages first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction essays challenging informative reflective medium-paced

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Collectively, these essays showcase the roles enslavement and Jim Crow have played in intensifying Black people's inner lives and culture rather than destroying it. She argues that in the process of surviving, Black people re-interpreted every as...

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informative 87%
reflective 79%
challenging 50%
emotional 25%
funny 25%
inspiring 20%
sad 20%
dark 12%
tense 12%
hopeful 8%
adventurous 4%
lighthearted 4%

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medium 45%

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