Title

Colored people : a memoir

Description

Memoir by Henry Louis Gates.

Identifier

491135

679421793

Creator

Gates, Henry Louis

Format

1st ed.

Source

Brian Lamb Booknotes Collection

Gift of Brian Lamb, 2011.

Catalog record

Language

eng

Date

1994

Program Air Date: October 9, 1994.

Publisher

Knopf

George Mason University. Libraries. Special Collections & Archives

Subject

"Gates, Henry Louis--Childhood and youth."

"African Americans--West Virginia--Social life and customs."

"African American scholars--United States--Biography."

"Critics--United States--Biography."

Relation

Original Booknotes interview

Rights

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Transcription of Annotations
Notes on front endpapers: Small town Randy's, Sports, Nat King Cole, Pipi, Jerry Malhoney. Middle name Smith. Skippn. Maura-white people p. 34 Menopause. Religion-Methodist Episcopalian. Age 15-Summer Camp. What's a loader. Integration-a loss. Military school. Fat. Good hair--straight. 50s, TV, Randy's, Amos and Andy, Civil Rights, Little Rock. Why did your Daddy use the word nigger a lot. Colemans. Nat King Cole. Yellow post-it note: John F.-tape of Turner. Tape of A.L.G. Randall Kennedy. Notes on verso: Notes of a native son James Baldwin. Nigger Dick Gregory. Methodist to Episcopalian--church camp. 6 years with crayons--$1.18 stolen Five and Dime. Emmett Till-first memory. Amos and Andy. Underlinings/notes: Underlinings: Population, race distribution of Piedmont, West Virginia. Use of Jim Crow a a verb. Use of "Brother/Sister." 50s in Piedmont colored sepia in memory. Black not then a polite term. Integration in area Mills, not until 1968. Relationship of colored/whites in Piedmont. Came to know white people via TV--world closer, but just out of reach. Reaction of family to civil rights. Gates' religious journey and need to go beyond his community. Health. Increasing black consciousness. Interracial relationship. Notes: Religion. "I wanted to be a doctor," "sit-down in rest.," "Daddy light-complicated." Mentions shows like "Amos and Andy," and "Leave it to Beaver." "Mama despised white people," "white people smelled bad." "James Baldwin," "1968 High School graduation," "Premedical school."