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Loose canons : notes on the culture wars / Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Oxford paperbacksPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.Description: xix, 199 p. ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 0195083504
  • 9780195083507
  • 0195075196
  • 9780195075199
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 810.9/896073 20
LOC classification:
  • PS153.N5 G275 1992
Other classification:
  • HU 1728
Online resources:
Contents:
Canon confidential: a Sam Slade caper -- The master's pieces: on canon formation and the African-American tradition -- Writing, "Race" and the difference it makes -- Talking black: critical signs of the times -- "Tell me, sir ... what IS "black" literature?" -- Integrating the American mind -- African-American studies in the 21st century -- "What's in a name?" Some meanings of blackness -- The big picture -- Trading on the margin: notes on the culture of criticism.
Summary: Annotation Multiculturalism has been the subject of cover stories in Time and Newsweek and other newspapers and magazines around America. A leading literary and cultural critic, Gates says that the society we have made simply won't survive without the values of tolerance, and cultural tolerance comes to nothing without cultural understanding.
List(s) this item appears in: Diversity/Advocacy
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Includes index.

Canon confidential: a Sam Slade caper -- The master's pieces: on canon formation and the African-American tradition -- Writing, "Race" and the difference it makes -- Talking black: critical signs of the times -- "Tell me, sir ... what IS "black" literature?" -- Integrating the American mind -- African-American studies in the 21st century -- "What's in a name?" Some meanings of blackness -- The big picture -- Trading on the margin: notes on the culture of criticism.

Annotation Multiculturalism has been the subject of cover stories in Time and Newsweek and other newspapers and magazines around America. A leading literary and cultural critic, Gates says that the society we have made simply won't survive without the values of tolerance, and cultural tolerance comes to nothing without cultural understanding.

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