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Bookmarks: Reading in Black and White
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by Karla F. C. Holloway
Sales Rank: 585007
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List Price: $19.95
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on 12-27-2008
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Paperback: 223 pages
Publisher: Rutgers University Press July 30, 2008
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0813543517
ISBN-13: 978-0813543512
Product Dimensions:
8.1 x 5.3 x 0.7 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces
Product Review
"BookMarks is a moving and revelatory memoir a work of fiercely intelligent scholarship." - Susan Larson, New Orleans Times-Picayune "Erudite and emotional in turns, [BookMarks] is full of truths that appeal to the head and the heart." - Charlotte News Observer"
Product Description
In "BookMarks", Karla FC Holloway explores the public side of reading, and specifically how books and booklists form a public image of African Americans. Revealing her own love of books and her quirky passion for their locations in libraries and on bookshelves, she takes us on a personal and candid journey through children's reading rooms, prison libraries, and "Negro" libraries of the early twentieth century.Holloway also calls our attention to a remarkable trend among many prominent African American writers - including Maya Angelou, W.E.B. Du Bois, Henry Louis Gates, Malcolm X, and Zora Neale Hurston. Their autobiographies and memoirs are consistently marked with booklists - records of their own habits of reading. She examines these lists, along with the trends of selection in Oprah Winfrey's popular book club, raising the questions: What does it mean for prominent African Americans to associate themselves with European learning and culture? How do books by black authors fare in the inevitable hierarchy of a booklist?This compelling rumination on reading will urge you to reflect upon your own reading habits, what books are important to you, and why.
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