
And Still I Rise
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Beginning with the assassination of Malcolm X in February 1965, And Still I Rise explores a half-century of the African American experience. More than fifty years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act and the birth of Black Power, the United States has had a black president and black CEOs running Fortune 500 companies-as well as a large black underclass beset by persistent poverty, inadequate education, and an epidemic of incarceration. Harvard professor and scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. raises disturbing and vital questions about this dichotomy. How did the African American community end up encompassing such profound contradictions? And what will "the black community" mean tomorrow?
Gates takes readers through the major historical events and untold stories of the years that have irrevocably shaped both the African American experience and the nation as a whole, from the explosive social and political changes of the 1960s into the 1970s and 1980s-eras characterized by both prosperity and neglect-through the turn of the century to today, taking measure of such racial flashpoints as the Tawana Brawley case, OJ Simpson's murder trial, the murders of Amadou Diallo and Trayvon Martin, and debates around the NYPD's "stop and frisk" policies. Even as it surveys the political and social evolution of black America, And Still I Riseis also a celebration of the accomplishments of black artists, musicians, writers, comedians, and thinkers who have helped to define American popular culture and to change our world.
"The chronology is richly illustrated with images both iconic and seldom seen, making this especially useful as a visual reference for readers too young to have scenes from the early years burned into their memories.... a poignant reminder of how far we have come-and have yet to go." - Kirkus Reviews
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Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African & African American Research at Harvard University. Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, literary scholar, journalist, cultural critic, and institution builder, Professor Gates has authored seventeen books and created fourteen documentary films. Having written for such leading publications as The New Yorker, the New York Times, and Time, Professor Gates now serves as chairman of the daily online magazine The Root and is editor in chief of the Oxford African American Studies Center. He has received more than fifty honorary degrees from institutions the world over.
Content
- Intro
- DEDICATION
- INTRODUCTION
- 1965-1969
- 1965
- 1966
- 1967
- 1968
- 1969
- 1970-1974
- 1970
- 1971
- 1972
- 1973
- 1974
- 1975-1979
- 1975
- 1976
- 1977
- 1978
- 1979
- 1980-1984
- 1980
- 1981
- 1982
- 1983
- 1984
- 1985-1989
- 1985
- 1986
- 1987
- 1988
- 1989
- 1990-1994
- 1990
- 1991
- 1992
- 1993
- 1994
- 1995-1999
- 1995
- 1996
- 1997
- 1998
- 1999
- 2000-2004
- 2000
- 2001
- 2002
- 2003
- 2004
- 2005-2009
- 2005
- 2006
- 2007
- 2008
- 2009
- 2010-2015
- 2010
- 2011
- 2012
- 2013
- 2014
- 2015
- ENDNOTES
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INDEX
- ABOUT THE AUTHORS
- ALSO BY HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR.
- COPYRIGHT
- ABOUT THE PUBLISHER
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