Full name: Colored People: A Memoir

Author: Henry Louis Gates Jr. Year: 1994 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Memoirs, Non Fiction, Award winners, History Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780679739197 067973919X

From an American Book Award-winning author comes a pungent and poignant masterpiece of recollection that ushers readers into a now-vanished "colored" world and extends and deepens our sense of African-American history, even as it entrances us with its bravura storytelling. Similar books: Black Ice by Lorene Cary Makes Me Wanna Holler by Nathan McCall Life on the Color Line by Gregory Howard Williams No Disrespect by Sister Souljah Black White and Jewish by Rebecca Walker Angela Davis by Angela Y. Davis Parallel Time by Brent Staples Unafraid of the Dark by Rosemary L. Bray The Sweeter the Juice by Shirlee Taylor Haizlip Negroland by Margo Jefferson Black Notebooks by Toi Derricotte Dust Tracks on a Road by Zora Neale Hurston All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes by Maya Angelou The Grace of Silence by Michele Norris Fire Shut Up in My Bones by Charles M. Blow Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates A River in Darkness by Masaji Ishikawa Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand Lady in Waiting by Anne Glenconner Upstairs at the White House by J. B. West