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Here, he returns with an intellectual and at times deeply personal meditation on the hard-fought evolution and the very meaning of African American identity, calling upon our country to transcend its manufactured divisions.” — Isabel Wilkerson, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Warmth of Other Suns\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eCaste\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This is a literary history of Black America, but it is also an argument that African American history is inextricable from the history of African American literature.” — \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA magnificent, foundational reckoning with how Black Americans have used the written word to define and redefine themselves, in resistance to the lies of racism and often in heated disagreement with each other, over the course of the country’s history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDistilled over many years from Henry Louis Gates, Jr.’s legendary Harvard introductory course in African American Studies,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Black Box: Writing the Race\u003c\/em\u003e, is the story of Black self-definition in America through the prism of the writers who have led the way. From Phillis Wheatley and Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington, to Zora Neale Hurston and Richard Wright, James Baldwin and Toni Morrison — these writers used words to create a livable world — a “home” — for Black people destined to live out their lives in a bitterly racist society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is a book grounded in the beautiful irony that a community formed legally and conceptually by its oppressors to justify brutal sub-human bondage, transformed itself\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ethrough the word\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003einto a community whose foundational definition was based on overcoming one of history’s most pernicious lies. This collective act of resistance and transcendence is at the heart of its self-definition as a “community.” Out of that contested ground has flowered a resilient, creative, powerful, diverse culture formed by people who have often disagreed markedly about what it means to be “Black,” and about how best to shape a usable past out of the materials at hand to call into being a more just and equitable future. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is the epic story of how, through essays and speeches, novels, plays, and poems, a long line of creative thinkers has unveiled the contours of — and resisted confinement in — the “black box” inside which this “nation within a nation” has been assigned, willy nilly, from the nation’s founding through to today. 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