Colored people
a memoir
African americans, intellectual life
Critics
Upper class
African americans, social conditions
United states, race relations
Childhood and youth
Leadership
African Americans
Social life and customs
Biography
In this rich memoir of his early life, the celebrated scholar and writer Henry Louis Gates, Jr., gives us an indelible portrait of a vanished America. Born in 1950, he grew up in Piedmont (population 2,565), a West Virginia town perched on the side of a hill in the Allegheny Mountains. He was raised…
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