{"product_id":"the-black-box-writing-the-race-paperback","title":"The Black Box: Writing the Race (Paperback)","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch1\u003e\u003cb\u003eby Henry Louis Gates, Jr.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #24d7de;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eDescription\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"mobile-about-the-book\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"mobile-about-the-book\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"mobile-about-the-book\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Henry 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\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ffffff; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDistilled over many years from Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s legendary Harvard introductory course in African American Studies, \u003cem\u003eThe Black Box: Writing the Race\u003c\/em\u003e, is the story of Black self-definition in America through the prism of the writers who have led the way. From Phillis Wheatley and Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington, to Zora Neale Hurston and Richard Wright, James Baldwin and Toni Morrison--these writers used words to create a livable world--a \"home\" --for Black people destined to live out their lives in a bitterly racist society.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ffffff;\"\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is a book grounded in the beautiful irony that a community formed legally and conceptually by its oppressors to justify brutal sub-human bondage, transformed itself through the word into a community whose foundational definition was based on overcoming one of history's most pernicious lies. This collective act of resistance and transcendence is at the heart of its self-definition as a \"community.\" Out of that contested ground has flowered a resilient, creative, powerful, diverse culture formed by people who have often disagreed markedly about what it means to be \"Black,\" and about how best to shape a usable past out of the materials at hand to call into being a more just and equitable future.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ffffff;\"\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is the epic story of how, through essays and speeches, novels, plays, and poems, a long line of creative thinkers has unveiled the contours of--and resisted confinement in--the \"black box\" inside which this \"nation within a nation\" has been assigned, willy nilly, from the nation's founding through to today. This is a book that records the compelling saga of the creation of a people.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #24d7de;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eHenry Louis Gates, Jr.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. An award-winning filmmaker, literary scholar, journalist, cultural critic, and institution builder, Professor Gates has authored or coauthored more than twenty books, including \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eStony the Road\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Black Church\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Black Box\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and created more than twenty documentary films, including his groundbreaking genealogy series \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eFinding Your Roots\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. His six-part PBS documentary, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, earned an Emmy Award, a Peabody Award, and an NAACP Image Award. This series and his PBS documentary series \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eReconstruction: America after the Civil War\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e were both honored with the Alfred I. duPont - Columbia University Award.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #24d7de;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCategory: \u003c\/b\u003eNonfiction, History, Black Identity, African-American Studies\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\/Binding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBook Condition: \u003c\/b\u003eNew\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10: \u003c\/b\u003e0593299809\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/b\u003e978-\u003cspan\u003e0593299807\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePenguin Press\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDate Published:\u003c\/b\u003e March 18, 2025\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages: \u003c\/b\u003e304\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e\u003cb\u003eTerms of Sale\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eAll book sales are final. No returns or exchanges.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePurchaser will receive a new book that has never been read.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn stock books will be shipped within 7 business days of receipt of order via a major mail carrier (USPS, UPS, FedEX, or DHL) and may take up to 14 days to arrive depending on the carrier and destination.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSpecial orders typically arrive 14 to 21 days after purchase date. Pre-orders typically arrive on or around book's date of publication.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mr. Well-Travelled","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50222577746113,"sku":null,"price":29.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/4756\/3713\/files\/9780593299807_-_Black_Box_-_Henry_Louis_Gates_Jr_-_mrwelltravelled_-_black_owned_online_bookstore_-_every_day_is_juneteenth.jpg?v=1778777554","url":"https:\/\/shop.mrwelltravelled.com\/en-ca\/products\/the-black-box-writing-the-race-paperback","provider":"Mr. Well-Travelled","version":"1.0","type":"link"}